My Dell D600 Latitude laptop runs an "ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000]" and I have always suffered with poor performance. Unfortunately I never get to the bottom of it. I really should try and get to a LUG meeting one day see if someone who knows what they are doing can improve it.
But with 9.04 (well and others I have tried) I always get full compix effects, wobbly windows etc on the fresh install but it seems almost straight away to degrade and within the same day I seem to loose the ability to have any effects. Now (less than a week into a fresh clean install) I cannot enable any effects. Scrolling web pages can get very cumbersome. Just minimising windows can be a bit slow. I seem to be using the vesa driver. I tried the fglrx but it broke...so I will just leave it as it is for now. Jon Tony Pursell wrote: > On 28 Apr 2009 at 11:08, Rob Beard wrote: >> Seif Attar wrote: >>> I have a laptop with an ATI 200m xpress video card, I tried upgrading to >>> Jaunty, but before the upgrade I got a message the my hardware will not >>> work on Jaunty (I had mixed feelings of disappointment and happiness >>> that it actually warned me!), so the fglrx drivers won't work, but how >>> will this affect me? i don't care much about 3d stuff, so I am willing >>> to give that up, but will my resolution be correct? and what about XV >>> video? has anyone here had any experience with this? >>> >>> I was shocked that ATI dropped support for this card, as I don't >>> consider my laptop old (well yeah, I bought it 3 years ago, but i still >>> think of it as new and up to spec :) >>> >>> Peace, >>> Seif >>> >>> >> From what I understand, it is supported at least for 2D graphics so >> you'll still be able to use the machine and it should display at the >> correct resolution but you won't be able to use anything like Compiz so >> you won't get fancy effects or wobbly windows. >> > > I was a bit worried when the upgrade told me that fglrx wouldn't be > available for 9.04 - but I still get my wobbly windows, (which is about > the most sophisticated compiz effect that my ATI Radeon XPress 200 > grapics will do anyway). > > Tony > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/