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Hi - My trusty nvidia 8400gs just gave up the ghost and so I'm left with my onboard ati HD3000 on my ubuntu box. Upon restarting everything seemed to be working pretty well. The open source ati driver was autoloaded and appeared to be working ok. I decided that I should actually be using the binary ati driver (fglrx) as this was what I always did with zero issues on nvidia. BIG mistake. Firstly the "hardware drivers" section of ubuntu identified that other drivers were available, but were unable to install them. It failed telling me to look at /var/log/jockey.log which contains noting useful at all. I attempt to use synaptic to install the driver and it seems to go ok. I restart and it works - I have the catalyst control center so I guess it is working.
The problem is *everything* is horribly slow. The desktop effects are choppy and even sd video is full of tearing and unwatchable. I dont even bother trying 3d.
I have googled this problem and found loads of people with the same issue. Some are suggesting I turn off vsync in the control center and also in ccsm - which I dId and had no effect.
At this stage I have gone back to the open source driver, after having to google removal instructions and a fairly convoluted process.
So to summarise... ati's own linux driver is difficult to install, not working with a basic install of the most common linux desktop environment, and difficult to remove. All-in-all a total mess.
Did I do something wrong here or is this driver really as bad as the impression I have got? Is anyone using it without any problems? I would love to get some sort of hardware video decode (like vdpau on nvidia) working and i understand that the binary driver is the only way to do this. I just cant get the thing working.
The problem is *everything* is horribly slow. The desktop effects are choppy and even sd video is full of tearing and unwatchable. I dont even bother trying 3d.
I have googled this problem and found loads of people with the same issue. Some are suggesting I turn off vsync in the control center and also in ccsm - which I dId and had no effect.
At this stage I have gone back to the open source driver, after having to google removal instructions and a fairly convoluted process.
So to summarise... ati's own linux driver is difficult to install, not working with a basic install of the most common linux desktop environment, and difficult to remove. All-in-all a total mess.
Did I do something wrong here or is this driver really as bad as the impression I have got? Is anyone using it without any problems? I would love to get some sort of hardware video decode (like vdpau on nvidia) working and i understand that the binary driver is the only way to do this. I just cant get the thing working.
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