ATi 12.1 Linux release - When?

Mekrel · 30 Jan 2012 at 19:21

Has anyone seen any releases of the ATi proprietary Catalyst 12.1 drivers for Linux yet?

From reading around, the ATi Linux release schedule started to mirror the monthly releases that Window's ATi drivers had but, it's the 30th of Jan and Google or the AMD driver site is not returning anything! I did find something but they looked like OpenCL developer drivers, rather than display drivers. :confused:

Gnome 3 on my Mint 12 install doesn't work well with the current drivers and from reading around, 12.1 are planned to fix the issues.

I know I can stop using Gnome 3 but I'm liking it

Mekrel · 30 Jan 2012 at 20:33

JRS said:
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-driver-installer-12-1-x86.x86_64.run

Is that them, or are they merely masquerading as an up-to-date package?

Thanks, the link description does look like them but the link doesn't work. Something about BADHEADER.

Tried using the driver search page by selecting that graphics adapter and operating system but that takes me to here, which are 11.11 drivers.

Mekrel · 30 Jan 2012 at 21:53

JRS said:
That page is a bit weird. Says 11.11 in the first box, then 12.1 under 'Revision Number' with a release date of Jan 25th, and the download link points to the file I linked to.

Does the download link work for you? Accessing it via the page I linked to also doesn't work

Mekrel · 30 Jan 2012 at 22:43

JRS said:
Yep, d/l link works here.

***edit***

Just to confirm, I've downloaded the .run file again from that page and it came down okay.

Thanks! Looks like it was Chrome not liking the link. Another browser managed to download it fine

Drivers seem to be working too! No more graphical glitches.