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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

Slow games & video

Asked by paul fellows

I'm new to Ubuntu and am tentatively feeling my way around. I find that flash games such as collapse on facebook and videos from youtube run very slowly. I installed the package that included adobe flash player and found it made a slight difference but still very slow.
I've found my controller is a raedon RV250 but I'm unsure about what if anything I can do to speed it up. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm a complete novice at this so trend to get lost in the jargon if I try reading the support pages. A few hints toward where I should be looking would be a great help. My laptop is a Dell Latitude D600

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

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

Thanks

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paul fellows (paulf0412) said : 		#2

 *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000]
       vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 01
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: agp agp-2.0 pm vga_controller bus_master vga_palette cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=radeon latency=32 mingnt=8
       resources: irq:11 memory:e8000000-efffffff ioport:c000(size=256) memory:fcff0000-fcffffff memory:fc000000-fc01ffff
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric
Linux paul-Latitude-D600 3.0.0-17-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar 8 17:34:21 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
That's what information it gives me. Is that any help?

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

You are using the open source driver. You may be able to install the proprietary driver if your chip is supported. You may need to make an xorg.conf file to specify better options.

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paul fellows (paulf0412) said : 		#4

Any help with making a xorg.conf file would be appreciated. I've read some of the notes about them and I get a bit lost in the technicalities.

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paul fellows (paulf0412) said : 		#5

I've been reading various documents and I've even tried a few things but I'm still no nearer to speeding up my video card. Could anyone give a complete novice who's just migrated across from windows a bit of a clue as to what I'm supposed to be doing? Most of the documents I've looked at seem to be from older versions of Ubuntu and the fixes they suggest don't seem to work(or I'm not doing it right). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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paul fellows (paulf0412) said : 		#6

Found a comment by soeone ese with the same problem. ATI don't support old drivers so seems ke I'm stuck with slow video.

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paul fellows (paulf0412) said : 		#7

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.