Hello to everyone on the forum!
I'm really new here, I have installed Ubuntu 8.10 on two machines, a laptop with NVidia GeForce Go6400 that works like a charm, and an older desktop with an ATI Radeon 9200. Although the 9200 works really well with Windows XP (including the integrated TV-out), I seem to have problems in Ubuntu.
The card seems to be properly detected and it supports 3D acceleration but it is too slow (especially with the glxgears test where it seems to obtain about only 600 fps, and scrolling in Mozilla which is VERY slow).
Watching movies doesn't seem to be a big problem but I would really use any advice on this!
The drivers I use are the Open-Source bundled with Ubuntu. I tried to install the proprietary ATI drivers with no luck because the Catalyst 8.12 doesn't support my card and the old ATI drivers that support it, don't seem to be compatible with the version of Xorg that comes with Ubuntu 8.10...
Are there any tweaks I could try? Or other drivers (or driver version I should try....even experimental)...or I should just buy an NVidia card??
Any help will be appreciated!
Thanks a lot...
I'm really new here, I have installed Ubuntu 8.10 on two machines, a laptop with NVidia GeForce Go6400 that works like a charm, and an older desktop with an ATI Radeon 9200. Although the 9200 works really well with Windows XP (including the integrated TV-out), I seem to have problems in Ubuntu.
The card seems to be properly detected and it supports 3D acceleration but it is too slow (especially with the glxgears test where it seems to obtain about only 600 fps, and scrolling in Mozilla which is VERY slow).
Watching movies doesn't seem to be a big problem but I would really use any advice on this!
The drivers I use are the Open-Source bundled with Ubuntu. I tried to install the proprietary ATI drivers with no luck because the Catalyst 8.12 doesn't support my card and the old ATI drivers that support it, don't seem to be compatible with the version of Xorg that comes with Ubuntu 8.10...
Are there any tweaks I could try? Or other drivers (or driver version I should try....even experimental)...or I should just buy an NVidia card??
Any help will be appreciated!
Thanks a lot...
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