Is this a workaround for ATI radeon under Jaunty??

[sehe]

I just took the leap and installed Jaunty anyway on my ATI laptop.

It warned me in big letters that the fglrx driver was not going to be supported, but I took the 'risk' and installed anyway. So now I'm automatically using the free and opensource ATI driver. I must say, I don't notice any difference.

I have always been, and still am, running a full Compiz Fusion setup with full effects (great for propaganda purposes ) and everything works like before - even the benchmark figures are okay. (I don't have the numbers ready since my laptop is at home).

Only one explanation coming to my mind: the free ati driver has been way improved to the point I don't notice any difference anymore.

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[KaYnemO]

I just took the leap and installed Jaunty anyway on my ATI laptop.

It warned me in big letters that the fglrx driver was not going to be supported, but I took the 'risk' and installed anyway. So now I'm automatically using the free and opensource ATI driver. I must say, I don't notice any difference.

I have always been, and still am, running a full Compiz Fusion setup with full effects (great for propaganda purposes ) and everything works like before - even the benchmark figures are okay. (I don't have the numbers ready since my laptop is at home).

Only one explanation coming to my mind: the free ati driver has been way improved to the point I don't notice any difference anymore.

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hmmm... well... maybe I should try the opensource driver again.

I'll get back to you all.

[ssri]

I just took the leap and installed Jaunty anyway on my ATI laptop.

It warned me in big letters that the fglrx driver was not going to be supported, but I took the 'risk' and installed anyway. So now I'm automatically using the free and opensource ATI driver. I must say, I don't notice any difference.

I have always been, and still am, running a full Compiz Fusion setup with full effects (great for propaganda purposes ) and everything works like before - even the benchmark figures are okay. (I don't have the numbers ready since my laptop is at home).

Only one explanation coming to my mind: the free ati driver has been way improved to the point I don't notice any difference anymore.

$0.02

Hmm, for those who says the opensource drivers work, please state which ATI card/chip you have. The opensource drivers included in Jaunty's livecd displayed the same artifacts (tearing and refresh dust/lines) under default blank and modified xorg.confs. I heard that the rewrite of the opensource drivers have been promising, especially for my card (ATI Mobility Radeon x2300): http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17438 and http://www.digitalself.org/2008/06/1...ri-3d-support/. I might upgrade to Jaunty after hearing this news. However, I'm currently busy writing a paper that I want to submit soon. Not worth tinkering with a working, stable system now.

[Tokyo_Joe]

I'm using a Radeon x800 and switched to the Open Source driver when I upgraded to Jaunty. And in almost every respect, performance improved. Now, I don't play any 3D games so it might be suffering there, but video plays much more smoothly, without the 'tearing' I got in Intrepid. Also I can have my desktop spinning round on a cube in surreal animated landscape without any noticable problem (not that I do, silly cubes...).

The only problem, which is a little annoying, is that I've lost my maximum resolution, 1920x1080. I get 1400xsomething maximum or 1368 or thereabouts if I want it in widescreen (which of course, I do since I'm using it on my 42" 1080p Aquos).

[zeiz]

I have ATI Radeon X700 "Sapphire" and I cannot even login after upgrade 8.10 to 9.04.
The login screen is broken and completely frozen, only power button works.
Perhaps another problem I have is my monitor that is SyncMaster2253bw that has 1680x1050_60 resolution.
Could somebody advise how to switch to open source or vesa driver under 9.04?
Many thanks.