AMD's Catalyst Misses The Support Train, Again
AMD will once again be months late in supporting the newest X.Org / Linux kernel releases.
Source: Phoronix
While AMD released the Catalyst 11.3 driver this morning, if you're an early adopter of Ubuntu 11.04, Fedora 15, or any other Linux distribution shipping with xorg-server 1.10, the proprietary Radeon / FirePro driver remains incompatible.
AMD will once again be months late in supporting the newest X.Org / Linux kernel releases. With X.Org Server 1.10 there was an ABI break, and then a last-minute video ABI break when RandR 1.4 was removed, which renders this binary driver inoperable atop Ubuntu Natty.
If you're running a Linux desktop with updated X stack, there's prompt support in NVIDIA's binary driver and the open-source AMD / Nouveau / Intel drivers will work fine, but the Catalyst support is not to be found. Don't expect to see it in Catalyst 11.4 either, but Catalyst 11.5 in May is where AMD should finally have the final xorg-server 1.10 ABI supported, due to the last minute ABI break before the 1.10 release in late February.
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Source: Phoronix