AMD heeft nieuwe Linux-drivers uitgebracht voor zijn ATi Radeon-videokaarten. Versie 8.3 van de Linux-driver kan overweg met versies 6.7 tot en met 7.3 van X.org, Linux-kernel 2.6 en hoger en glibc 2.2 of 2.3. Linux-kernel 2.4 en Xfree86 4.3 worden niet langer ondersteund. De laatste versie die dat deed was versie 8.42.3. De release notes van Catalyst Linux Display Driver 8.3 laten de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen zien:

New Features
This release of the ATi Catalyst Linux driver introduces Xvideo extension for video scaling and color space conversion is now support on Xpress 1200 series hardware
Resolved Issues
On workstation hardware 3D applications will no longer be corrupted if the screen width is not an integer multiple of 64 pixels, for example with a 1680x1050 wide screen display.
Display flicker is no longer be noticed when the gnome screen-saver starts
Several image brightness and gamma-correction issues were resolved. Setting the gamma correction using xgamma, fglrx_xgamma, xorg.conf and in OpenGL games will all work as expected now.
Diagonal tearing will no longer be noticed when playing a video file using a video player that utilizes the XVideo extension
Video playback will no longer look blocky when playing a video file using a video player that utilizes the XVideo extension
Known Issues
There is no support for video playback on the second head in dual head mode.
Desktop corruption may be noticed when dragging the overlay/video when using dual-display mode.
A black screen may be observed on some hardware when switching to the console or leaving the X window system when a Vesa framebuffer console driver is used.
Video Playback may display wrong colors and additional shadow images when cropping or expanding a video file using a video player that utilizes the XVideo extension