Graphics drivers performance issue.

**cariboo907** · March 9th, 2013

Xorg is the windows system that draws the different elements, you need a driver to interact with the Xorg server. The full name of the driver is xserver-xorg-video-radeon (1:7.1.0-0ubuntu1). For more info have a look here.

**Zestypanda** · March 10th, 2013

Oh ok, also on a side not I installed the ati 13.2 beta7 drivers and now unity won't load, how can I purge and reinstall the default drivers from tty?

**cariboo907** · March 10th, 2013

Originally Posted by Zestypanda

Oh ok, also on a side not I installed the ati 13.2 beta7 drivers and now unity won't load, how can I purge and reinstall the default drivers from tty?

Open a terminal and use the following command:

Code:

sudo apt-get purge <package-name>

where <package-name = the name of the driver package you installed, I refuse to use ATI/AMD graphic adapters, so you're on your own as far as the driver name is concerned.

**Stinger** · March 11th, 2013

@ Zestypanda
Here you go !

Problem: Need to purge -fglrx

Start with this

Code:

sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx fglrx_* fglrx-amdcccle* fglrx-dev* xorg-driver-fglrx

Takes care of most of the unwanted elements.

I have been there a couple of times myself with my radeon HD4670 card

BTW if you downloaded the driver directly from AMD the uninstall routine is a bit different.

Code:

sudo sh /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh

**Zestypanda** · March 11th, 2013

Thank you, but I already bit the bullet and re installed 13.04 (is it me or does reinstalling make ubuntu feel faster.

) so yeah, it's not running the x.org xserver drivers and it's butter smooth..woot. Though, I am wondering without going into the world of hurt that the proprietary drivers send me, can I hack, force, enable you call it 3d acceleration on the x.org drivers?

**Stinger** · March 11th, 2013

Originally Posted by Zestypanda

Thank you, but I already bit the bullet and re installed 13.04 (is it me or does reinstalling make ubuntu feel faster.

) so yeah, it's not running the x.org xserver drivers and it's butter smooth..woot. Though, I am wondering without going into the world of hurt that the proprietary drivers send me, can I hack, force, enable you call it 3d acceleration on the x.org drivers?

No I'm afraid not ,but at the X.Org Wiki you can see the features available in the radeon driver

I know for a fact that the driver cannot display texture files i the old PCX format when i run my old Doom games with the Doomsday engine, when I covert them to PNG instead it runs just fine.

**Zestypanda** · March 11th, 2013

What about this ppa? I added it and haven't installed it yet, would this work? https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers

**SkylineGTR** · March 11th, 2013

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**Zestypanda** · March 12th, 2013

Sorry to bump this thread but I'm sorta confused on how to proceed with this.

**Stinger** · March 12th, 2013

@ Zestypanda
You mean xorg-edgers fresh X crack for Raring ?
Yes it should work, although there might be 'instability' involved as it is the fresh X crack.
Which driver are you planning to use, the standard one from Xorg or the fglrx driver from AMD ?