AMD Catalyst™ 13.2 Beta 6 for Linux 

Feature Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 13.2 Beta Driver for Linux

• [370839]: Resolves a sporadic Steam Big Picture mode crashing issue encountered with AMD Radeon™ HD 7000, 6000 Series

The AMD Catalyst™ 13.2 Beta 6 driver can be downloaded from the following link:

• AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta 6 Driver for Linux

Note! This Driver is provided “AS IS” and under the terms and conditions of the End User License Agreement provided therewith

AMD Product Compatibility:
The AMD Catalyst™ 13.2 Beta Driver for Linux is designed to be compatible with the following AMD products.

Linux Distributions Supported:
The AMD Catalyst™ 13.2 Beta Driver for Linux is designed to support the following Linux distributions:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux suite 5.7, 5.8, 6.2 and 6.3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP4 and 11 SP2
• OpenSUSE 11.4 and 12.1
• Ubuntu 12.10

System Requirements:
Before attempting to install the AMD Catalyst™ Linux graphics driver, the following software must be installed:

• Xorg/Xserver 6.9 and above (up to 1.13)
• Linux kernel 2.6 or above (up to 3.5)
• glibc version 2.2 or 2.3
• POSIX Shared Memory (/dev/shm) support is required for 3D applications

NOTE: If a Linux 2.6.11 or newer kernel was built with CONFIG_AGP enabled, the kernel AGP frontend is required to load the fglrx kernel module. To identify whether your kernel with CONFIG_AGP enabled, look for CONFIG_AGP=y in the kernel config file, or if the ‘agpgart’ module is loaded

System Recommendations:
For optimal performance and ease of use, the following are available:

• Kernel module build environment
• Kernel source code include either the Kernel Source or Kernel Headers packages
• The RPM utility should be installed and configured correctly on your system, if you intend to install via RPM packages

The following packages must be installed in order for the AMD Catalyst™ Linux graphics driver to install and work optimally:

• XFree86-Mesa-libGL
• libstdc++
• libgcc
• XFree86-libs
• fontconfig
• freetype
• zlib
• gcc