ATI Graphics Cards and Jaunty: What Works?

**lekksi** · May 6th, 2009

Update from 8.10 -> 9.04:
My laptop (ATI Mobility Radeon X700) worked out of the box with the open source graphics driver. Compiz works fine and the 2D performance is much better than in 8.10.

I wasn't as lucky with my desktop (ATI Radeon 9500). As mentioned the new fglrx driver doesn't support my chipset anymore and I had to remove the driver from recovery console. The default driver doesn't support 3D and 2D performance is poor.

**loudog23** · May 6th, 2009

same here, with ATI readon xpress200 on Intel Dual core (integrated Video).

On jaunty, it was smooth a nice, but no 3d support. I downgraded to 8.10 so i can play my game but i miss the little extra of jaunty

**li_sin_cin** · June 6th, 2009

Hi.

I have ATI Radeon RS690M [ATI X1200 series].
And I also have upgraded to 9.04.

At start I was upset. My video card is no longer supported by AMD drivers. And at basis even movies playback been Very VERY slowly.

Then. I read some advices, and got FULL 3D support and normal functionality of card.
I enabled all the KDE effects. Only window shadows are not showing correctly. But thats fine for me

You just need to turn DRI support.
Here is the link
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonXpress

and my xorg.conf

Code:

ection "Monitor"
    Identifier    "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier    "Default Screen"
    Monitor        "Configured Monitor"
    Device        "Configured Video Device"
    DefaultDepth    24
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load    "glx"
    Load  "dri"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier    "Configured Video Device"
    Driver    "radeon"
    Option          "DRI" "true"
    Option          "GARTSize" "64"
    Option          "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
    #Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
        Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
    Option          "TripleBuffer"

EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Mode 0666
EndSection
        
Section "Extensions"
        Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier    "Default Layout"
    Screen          "Default Screen"    
        Option          "AIGLX" "true"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

And that string helps to view movies on normal speed. That dont freezing any more

Code:

Option          "TripleBuffer"

So, now I'm happy. Hope all it helps.

**peakshysteria** · June 6th, 2009

Originally Posted by lekksi

Update from 8.10 -> 9.04:
My laptop (ATI Mobility Radeon X700) worked out of the box with the open source graphics driver. Compiz works fine and the 2D performance is much better than in 8.10.

I wasn't as lucky with my desktop (ATI Radeon 9500). As mentioned the new fglrx driver doesn't support my chipset anymore and I had to remove the driver from recovery console. The default driver doesn't support 3D and 2D performance is poor.

My old laptop with ATI Raedon 9000 worked out of the box. Nice 2D performance. Compiz is working smooth. But it's no gamerbox thats for sure. My default box with ATI X700 EXCALIBUR PRO also worked out of the box.

**wpshooter** · June 6th, 2009

My custom built desktop machine is using an OOOOOLD ATI Radeon 9600XT card and what I found is that in doing a clean install of Jaunty from scratch (I do NOT trust doing update from previous versions), that after installing from the ALTERNATE CD version the FPS was very low and direct rendering was not enabled.

Then STRANGELY (because I would have thought that it would have been exactly the opposite) after I WIPED that installation from the drive and re-installed from the LIVE CD version the FPS was much faster and the direct rendering WAS enabled. At that point, I left well enough alone !!!