Steven Harms

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Posts Tagged fglrx

ATI + Compiz

Nov 2

Posted by Steven Harms in Linux | 6 Comments

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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AMD releases Intrepid compatible driver

Oct 14

Posted by Steven Harms in Linux | 4 Comments

That is my desktop running on my Radeon 3870, with Compiz on and dualhead enabled. Awesome.

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FGLRX driver rolls along

Sep 18

Posted by Steven Harms in Linux | No Comments

They finally got my favorite issue fixed:

“When it comes to WINE, AMD has fixed the screen corruption issue that has plagued users for a number of months now. However, AMD is continuing to address problems with WINE as well as delivering performance optimizations, which should be in the pipeline shortly.”

Great job AMD, the release schedule for fglrx is working out for me atleast. Phoronix has the full details.

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OpenSUSE 11 fglrx

Sep 12

Posted by Steven Harms in Linux | 2 Comments

I bought a HD3870 ATI card, and for some strange reason, using the proprietary catalyst driver on OpenSUSE 11, just by feel mind you, not benchmarks, is about 2x slower with compiz than Ubuntu. What does Ubuntu do that is different than OpenSUSE that could cause this? Both distro’s are using Xorg 7.3 so I am a bit confused. Compiz on OpenSUSE is 0.7.6, on Hardy its 0.7.4 but I couldn’t see that making that big of difference.

Anyone else experience this? One thing to make firefox usable I did is disable smooth scrolling, but the effects on windows are still very slow.

On a side note, DropBox works great on my Ubuntu box and OpenSUSE box, definitely a cool tool.

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