fglrx 8.89.4 Catalyst 11.8

fglrx 8.89.4 Catalyst 11.8 is a display driver. The fglrx 8.89.4 Catalyst 11.8 has been tested via the Phoronix Test Suite in the configurations listed below.

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AMD Catalyst 12.3 For Linux Officially Released: AMD has officially released Catalyst 12.3 for Linux as its March 2012 update for those relying upon this binary graphics driver...

Early AMD Catalyst 12.3 Linux Drivers Seep Out: As Phoronix Forums readers have been quick to discover, early "beta" builds of AMD's Catalyst 12.3 proprietary Linux driver have begun to appear publicly...

AMD Catalyst 12.2 For Linux Brings Few Changes: AMD has released their belated Catalyst 12.2 Linux driver today. Unfortunately, it's not too exciting of a release...

AMD Catalyst 11.12 For Linux Is A Mixed Bag: A new version of AMD's Catalyst Linux graphics driver is now available...

AMD Catalyst 11.12 Will Be Even Better: Catalyst 11.10 was released yesterday for Linux and Windows platforms. Many Linux users are pleased by this driver update as can be seen from the forums, but Catalyst 11.12 is set to improve the Radeon binary blob situation even more...

AMD Catalyst 11.10 Linux Driver Released: On the last day of the month, AMD has released Catalyst 11.10 as their October 2011 proprietary Linux driver update...

AMD Catalyst 11.7 Driver For Linux Brings...: As has been pointed out in the forums, the AMD Catalyst 11.7 Linux driver for Radeon and FirePro graphics hardware has been released this morning. What new features does this proprietary driver bring?..

Here's The Special AMD Present For Ubuntu Users: As talked about at length yesterday, the Catalyst 11.3 driver that was just released is not compatible with the X.Org Server 1.10 final ABI. What this means is that this proprietary Linux driver update will not work on Ubuntu 11.04, Fedora 15, and other Linux distributions experiencing major updates.

Ubuntu 10.04 Gets A New Catalyst Pre-Release: A month ago the Canonical crew working on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS received an unreleased Catalyst 10.4 driver from AMD for inclusion with the Lucid Lynx since the publicly available ATI Catalyst drivers had not -- and to this day still do not -- support the X.Org Server 1.7 used by this next Ubuntu release.

AMD Catalyst 9.10 Linux Driver Released: Available over at AMD.com is now the Catalyst 9.10 Linux driver update. The release notes for this driver have yet to be uploaded there, but the Catalyst 9.10 Linux driver offers support for arbitrary transformations with RandR 1.3, support for loading the fglrx kernel module when an open-source DRM kernel module is still loaded, a fix for the fglrx kernel module when using DKMS 2.1.0, an AMDCCCLE menu item issue has been resolved, support for the Radeon HD 5750/5770 Juniper graphics cards, and other bug fixes.

Unreleased ATI Catalyst Driver Appears In Ubuntu: Last year when Ubuntu 8.10 was released it had shipped with an unpublished ATI Catalyst driver since the proprietary ATI drivers available to the public were not compatible with X Server 1.5, which was used by this Ubuntu release. Now with Ubuntu 9.04 coming around the corner and the ATI Catalyst driver lacking X Server 1.6 support, we have run into a similar situation...

ATI "fglrx" Support On Ubuntu 8.04: If you've been trying out the latest alpha builds of Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" and are using the ATI binary driver, you may want to check out the latest packaging scripts from Phorogit. For Ubuntu users, there is now 8.04 support so you can run --buildpkg Ubuntu/hardy or --buildpkg Ubuntu/8.04 for building your Debian packages.