New AMD proprietary drivers, Catalyst 8.4
Yesterday AMD published a new revision of their ati proprietary drivers, Catalyst 8.4.
One of the most important features of this version is basically the whole support for Ubuntu Hardy Heron that is going to be published at the end of April.
There are some important issues that have been resolved. For example, the problem with a black screen when switching to the console or leaving the X window system when a Vesa framebuffer console driver was used has been resolved. Also, video playback won’t display incorrect colors or additional shadow images when cropping or expanding anymore.
If you want to upgrade your drivers to this version, is very simple.
1. Download the driver from here.
2. Update your system and install required packages:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install module-assistant build-essential
sudo apt-get install fakeroot dh-make debconf libstdc++5 gcc-3.3-base dkms
3. Open a terminal, go to the folder where you downloaded the driver and create the specific packages for your distribution:
sudo bash ./ati-driver-installer-8-4-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/hardy # Hardy
sudo bash ./ati-driver-installer-8-4-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/gutsy # Gutsy
4. That will create four .deb files that you have to install with dpkg:
sudo dpkg -i file.deb
5. Finally, just execute the ati configuration tool and restart your computer (but first it would be a good idea to backup your xorg.conf file):
sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.back
sudo aticonfig --initial --force
sudo reboot
And that’s all.
- Link | Driver release notes
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