ATI driver problems

[O. Sinclair]

Alexander Smirnov wrote:
> Hello list
> 
> recently i've got a new PC at work, and it has ATI integrated graphics. 
> Here is what lspci shows for it: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI 
> Technologies Inc Radeon 3100 Graphics.
> 
> I'm not familiar with ATI graphics on linux, my previous PCs had Intel 
> or Nvidia chips. So i downloaded ati-driver-installer-9-6-x86.x86_64.sh 
> from ati site, made debs from it and installed them. Performance is 
> poor... glxgears shows number from 300 to 700. Moving windows is jerky. 
> I noticed that kde effects had disabled several times because of poor 
> performance.
> 
> Is there a way to increase the performance? my system is jaunty, kernel 
> is 2.6.28-13-generic
> 
> Thank you,
> -Alex
> 
Maybe you could look at the Envy tool that is supposed to be good for 
Nvidia and ATI drivers:
http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html
apparently the creator works for Canonical