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Ubuntu 11.04 running slow on Presario CQ56 with Mobility Radeon 4200

Asked by Emanuel K on 2011-05-30

Please look at the info from the test provided. Seems to run slow on this computer, despite that graphics are accelerated.

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Emanuel K
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2011-06-15
actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : #1

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C display;lsb_release -a; uname -a

Thanks

Emanuel K (capslock286) said : #2

SCSI
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200]
       vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
       physical id: 5
       bus info: pci@0000:01:05.0
       version: 00
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=fglrx_pci latency=0
       resources: irq:18 memory:c0000000-cfffffff ioport:3000(size=256) memory:d0300000-d030ffff memory:d0200000-d02fffff
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04
Codename: natty
Linux Presario-CQ56 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:24 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : #3

Have you tried removing the driver, then reinstalling it?

Emanuel K (capslock286) said : #4

I have tried to reinstall Ubuntu alltogether, without any luck in getting the acceleration to work satisfactory.

Emanuel K (capslock286) said : #5

Thank you for the quick answer!

Deltik (deltik) said : #6

The same issue occurs on an HP Pavilion dv7 using the ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver.

Emanuel K (capslock286) said : #7

Might be the same issue as Question #160346

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : #8

This question was expired because it remained in the 'Open' state without activity for the last 15 days.

Emanuel K (capslock286) said : #9

Are there similar findings on other systems with this graphic card?

Emanuel K (capslock286) said : #10

New output :

*-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200]
       vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
       physical id: 5
       bus info: pci@0000:01:05.0
       version: 00
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=fglrx_pci latency=0
       resources: irq:18 memory:c0000000-cfffffff ioport:3000(size=256) memory:d0300000-d030ffff memory:d0200000-d02fffff
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04
Codename: natty
Linux Presario-CQ56 2.6.38-10-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 2 21:32:22 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Emanuel K (capslock286) said : #11

Uninstalled the driver which was provided from the Ubuntu repositories and installed the 11.6-driver from AMD.

Emanuel K (capslock286) said : #12

After a clean install of Ubuntu, the problem seems to be to a much lesser extent than before.