[ubuntu-uk] Bloomin' ATI and Linux....

[Jon Reynolds]

My Dell D600 Latitude laptop runs an "ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 
[Mobility FireGL 9000]" and I have always suffered with poor 
performance. Unfortunately I never get to the bottom of it. I really 
should try and get to a LUG meeting one day see if someone who knows 
what they are doing can improve it.

But with 9.04 (well and others I have tried) I always get full compix 
effects, wobbly windows etc on the fresh install but it seems almost 
straight away to degrade and within the same day I seem to loose the 
ability to have any effects. Now (less than a week into a fresh clean 
install) I cannot enable any effects.

Scrolling web pages can get very cumbersome. Just minimising windows can 
be a bit slow.

I seem to be using the vesa driver. I tried the fglrx but it broke...so 
I will just leave it as it is for now.

Jon

Tony Pursell wrote:
> On 28 Apr 2009 at 11:08, Rob Beard wrote:
>> Seif Attar wrote:
>>> I have a laptop with an ATI 200m xpress video card, I tried upgrading to
>>> Jaunty, but before the upgrade I got a message the my hardware will not
>>> work on Jaunty (I had mixed feelings of disappointment and happiness
>>> that it actually warned me!), so the fglrx drivers won't work, but how
>>> will this affect me? i don't care much about 3d stuff, so I am willing
>>> to give that up, but will my resolution be correct? and what about XV
>>> video? has anyone here had any experience with this?
>>>
>>> I was shocked that ATI dropped support for this card, as I don't
>>> consider my laptop old (well yeah, I bought it 3 years ago, but i still
>>> think of it as new and up to spec :)
>>>
>>> Peace,
>>> Seif
>>>  
>>>   
>>  From what I understand, it is supported at least for 2D graphics so 
>> you'll still be able to use the machine and it should display at the 
>> correct resolution but you won't be able to use anything like Compiz so 
>> you won't get fancy effects or wobbly windows.
>>
> 
> I was a bit worried when the upgrade told me that fglrx wouldn't be 
> available for 9.04 - but I still get my wobbly windows, (which is about 
> the most sophisticated compiz effect that my ATI Radeon XPress 200 
> grapics will do anyway).
> 
> Tony
> 
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