[ubuntu-in] Intrepid sluggish on AMD Turion64 X2

[Onkar Shinde]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Mir Nazim <mirnazim at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Mir Nazim <mirnazim at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Mir Nazim <mirnazim at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hey guys
>>>>>
>>>>> Any one using Intrepid on AMD Turion64 X2. I have one laptop with AMD
>>>>> Turion64 X2(1.6 GHz) and TI Radeon x1250 card.
>>>>
>>>> Any chance you are using wrong graphics driver?
>>>
>>> I used the driver suggested by ubuntu in restricted driver manager
>>> which is xorg-driver-fglrx.
>>
>> I am wondering if restricted driver manager gave you wrong advice. Try
>> using radeonhd driver and if it works properly then file a bug against
>> restricted driver manager.
>>
>
> actually I sure that driver manager installed xorg-driver-fglrx and
> moreover I have been using the same driver for past 1 and half years

It's like this. fglrx is binary only driver maintained by ATI. In past
the driver has failed to keep up with changes in X. Moreover more and
more cards are supported by free drivers. So that is why I suggested
that you should try using radeonhd. If performance is better then you
should log a bug for drivers manager to recommend radeonhd for this
particular card.

One more thing you can try is removing xorg.conf altogether (after
taking backup), restart machine and see which driver is picked up
automatically.


Onkar