Flickering video on Asus motherboard with ATI video

[Eberhard Roloff]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I have Kubuntu 8.10 installed on a machine with an ASUS motherboard,
> onboard ATI graphics:
> http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=149&l3=639&l4=0&model=2064&modelmenu=1
> 
> The system graphics seem very sluggish (switching photos in digikam is
> slow) and video flickers. Running "aticonfig --initial" helped
> somewhat, but not completely. I am using the proprietary fglrx driver.
> Opening the Proprietary Drivers windows informs me that the machine is
> using "a different version" of the driver, for what that's worth.
> Looking in Adept, I have the only version available, installed.
> 
> What can I do to start troubleshooting this issue? Thanks.
> 
invest in a low cost ATI grafics-card?
Preferably a silently cooled one.

They are very cheap, yet their performance is way beyond chipset graphics.

regards
Eberhard