My desktop has been feeling quite sluggish lately, so I decided to do a test.
Current system:
- AMD X2 4800+
- 4GB Ram
- ATI 3870 PCI-E Video Card
- FGLRX driver
My old system:
- AMD XP 2800+
- 1GB Ram
- Nvidia 6600GT AGP Video Card
- Nvidia Driver
The difference, using them both side by side, is pretty drastic. The old system just blows away my new system. I can barely scroll in firefox, and switching tabs takes like 1.5-2 seconds on my new system, on the old system it flies. Also full screen video can’t be done without major choppyness on new system, but the old one works awesome.
I think I am going to have to replace the video card in the new system, because I can barely use Linux with this card, even with compiz disabled. Or just deal with it until open source drivers make more headway (although with the Xorg people being so grumpy towards the radeonhd people, who knows when that will happen).
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#1 by Vadim P. on November 2, 2008 - 3:25 pm
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Have a friend who just switched back to XP because of poor ATI drivers (no compiz + video or games).
#2 by Phil on November 2, 2008 - 5:47 pm
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I’ve been using the open source drives for months now; they are *so* much better than fglrx. ATI should be embarrassed to ever have released such a worthless driver.
#3 by z on November 2, 2008 - 6:14 pm
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i absolutely agree with phil. fglrx sucks big time. it even becomes worth with every release.
with fglrx my laptop is nearly unusably with compiz enables, as you said video in fullscreen is chopy, gnome itself feels sluggish. fortunately i have an older x700 card and can use the superior opensource radeon driver.
#4 by Jerry Babione on November 2, 2008 - 7:56 pm
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The drivers will help. The newer systems have scalable ports for the video interfaces. They are accessable from the bios. The profiles for the dual processor setups allow you to configure to the aperture. Try choosing one of the other profiles. (Usually two profiles are saved within the bios for the chipset). Choose the one which works the best.
#5 by Lunarcloud on November 3, 2008 - 12:33 am
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Try
sudo aticonfig –ovt Xv
#6 by _najt on November 4, 2008 - 9:50 am
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Agreed. Fglrx doesn’t do the job right. After months struggling I finally managed to use ATI drivers with my HD3650 and while in windows it was quite satisfactory in ubuntu the drivers somewhat sucked… Gnome crashed out on me quite a few times…