Finally I got an answer from ATI tech about the support of AGP card with Catalyst: =========================================================== Sir, As AGP became obsolete (due to the PCI-e card), the driver supporting AGP will be update 4 times a year (every 3 months). To be honest, it was said that the 7.11 should suport AGP, and it hasn't, so I can't tell you for sure if the next catalyst, 7.12, will support AGP, even if it should. The company policy, though, is to keep supporting it, on a 3months basis. Thanks & regards
There's been several people who contacted telephone support directly and were promised fixes over the last few months for 7.10, then 7.11, now 7.12.
I wouldn't hold my breath over the rumour of a 7.12 fix based on that knowledge base entry I linked to earlier. That can easily be read as a fix purely for the 2600, and purely for it's video acceleration. As there's been no comment from anyone officially linked with driver development, or even an admission of a problem to be fixed, I'm not hopeful.
Looks like it's back to the bad old days of ATI driver development when you didn't know if drivers were going to work or not.
I mean look at this BS answer posted on AMD's own forums
If this is true, I sure those people who bought brand new AGP 2600s a couple of months ago should rightfully be fuming. If it's not true, then ATI support is clueless or lying to it's customers, just like when they were closing fault reports on these broken drivers with "use earlier drivers".