Not running smooth... ideas?

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When scrolling in firefox 3 its jurky, slow and then it moves all over the place. When scrolling (mousewheel btw) it also makes Rhythmbox stutter.

As you probably know I'm running restricted drivers for my X800.

Is this a gfx problem or something else?

Cheers guys and gals,
Tobes
 
Could be drivers (ATI+linux=pain), but they can usually manage to run a desktop preety darned well.
Make sure X is actually USING the drivers, and also see that it's loading whatever other modules it needs (just hit your distro's forums and look at other people's xorg.conf).

X running at uber hi res with it's lowest common denominator vga drivers can be like computing in treacle, but it NEVER uses them, and even the better default vga libs work pretty well.


Could be slocate indexing stuff, but that would pass fairly quickly, my Gentoo box can index a couple of terrabytes in consierably less time than XP/Vista can do a 500GB disc.


Do windows tear horribly if you pick em up and whirl them around a bit?
 
thegoonden said:
Do windows tear horribly if you pick em up and whirl them around a bit?
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Yeah. Same goes for screensavers and videos (sometimes no output) but if I turn off compiz then it's all good.

LizardKing would it be possible for you to tell me how to get the output for you? :p
 
glxinfo | grep direct said:
tobes@Anubis:~$ glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: Yes
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Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
Defaultdepth 24
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Driver "fglrx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
screen "Default Screen"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
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I have turned off compiz as I wanted to watch some South Park. Firefox is scrolling pretty nicely. Still... I need compiz lol
 
Athlon 64 3500+
1GB Ram
ATI X800 XT PE
Neo 2 Plat
74gb Raptor

plus all the rest but wont bother listing it :p
 
Now that I have disabled composite, compiz will not start. I get the error "The Composite extension is not available"
 
I used to get that message with my X800.. then the X700 I downgraded to (X800 caught fire).

Now I know why !!

Do yourself a favour mate. Get a Nvidia card. I never thought I'd say that but even the lowly 5200 agp card in this does most of the whizzbang effects.
 
sucks major balls as I'm pretty sure this card is the cause of every single problem I have with linux. You may be right but sadly funds mean I can't afford it.

I just installed Enemy Territory Quake Wars. It actually runs! I mean not well, sound is choppy and stops, graphics are awful. But it runs.

I'm really getting used to this "linux" lol.

On another note. How do you remove applications you have manually installed? I have some things in the Application bar which I no longer have installed as I manually deleted the folders. But I can't get rid of them.
 
Tobes said:
On another note. How do you remove applications you have manually installed? I have some things in the Application bar which I no longer have installed as I manually deleted the folders. But I can't get rid of them.
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Erm, dunno - I've never just deleted directories to uninstall something. There's probably a better way to do it, but you could re-install and then uninstall using Synaptic or apt-get both times.
 
ok i'd recommend installing the latest proprietary FGLRX drivers from ati, you're using Ubuntu i assume? i don't know what version is with your restricted drivers however but i'd disable them and install FGLRX manually.

in xorg.conf add a new section as follows :

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666

Under "extensions" use like the following
Option "RENDER" "Enable"
Option "DAMAGE" "Enable"
Option "Composite" "Enable"

 add the following under "Device"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "on"

that should make a huge difference to speed and stability, let me know ...there's a few more tweaks also.
 
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oh and disable both the overlays too, you don't need em especially OpenGL which is considered depreciated now.
 
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I used EnvyNG to fetch and install the drivers. After using it I got a balloon in the taskbar telling me about restricted drivers or something and how I was now using them.

Edited and restarted. Can't say I notice any difference yet.

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
Defaultdepth 24
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
screen "Default Screen"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "RENDER" "Enable"
Option "DAMAGE" "Enable"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
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