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Hardy ati radeon xpress 200 slow performance

Asked by andy_w

Hi all,
Upgrading Gutsy to Hardy reduces my "glxgears" from 2000+ fps to 170-ish. Gfx chip is ATI Radeon Xpress 200. Have tried de-selecting the restricted driver but requires failsafe reboot; followed by reloading the restricted driver to obtain a Gnome desktop. BTW xorg.conf shows fglrx in use for both releases, so not sure what's changed.
Any ideas please?
Regards,
Andy.

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Adrian Moisey (adrianmoisey) said : 		#1

I have the same problem on my Dell OptiPlex 320

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andy_w (andyw-adsl4less) said : 		#2

Folks,

Try this excellent howto - it worked for me :-)

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Hardy_Installation_Guide

Regards,

Andyw.

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Dario Panico (dariopnc-) said : 		#3

I have a Radeon Xpress 200M:
$ glxgears
Warning, xpress200 detected.
4991 frames in 5.0 seconds = 998.040 FPS
5184 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1036.740 FPS
4863 frames in 5.0 seconds = 972.350 FPS
5434 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1086.787 FPS
5602 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1120.208 FPS
5561 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1112.100 FPS
5619 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1123.764 FPS
5680 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1135.828 FPS
5635 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1126.917 FPS
5689 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1137.622 FPS
5689 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1137.659 FPS
5598 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1118.945 FPS
5654 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1130.643 FPS

while running kontact, kopete, konqueror and building kde

Open drivers of course!

I heard about bug-fixing in ati drivers git for RS480 and this should improve 3d performances with those cards.. waiting for ubuntu pkg