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JimmyJazz
January 13th, 2006, 11:39 PM
its seems that way on mine. When will ATI release drivers that actually work well?
adam.tropics
January 13th, 2006, 11:51 PM
When it becomes in their financial interest to do so. Not likely for now.
Mr_Grieves
January 14th, 2006, 12:05 AM
I'd never buy ATI.. too many friends of mine had problems with thier drivers..
I love Nvidia for thier Linux efforts.
AMD64_N_Linux
January 14th, 2006, 03:26 AM
I'd never buy ATI.. too many friends of mine had problems with thier drivers..
I love Nvidia for thier Linux efforts.
I am using an ATI 9800 Pro

But it was a learning experience. I learned that I will not buy another ATI product.

Nvidia from now on.

To answer the original post.

I used Easyubuntu and all my problems disappeared.

gandalf@gandalf:~$ fgl_glxgears
3404 frames in 5.0 seconds = 680.800 FPS
5598 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1119.600 FPS
5590 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1118.000 FPS
5582 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1116.400 FPS
5597 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1119.400 FPS
5585 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1117.000 FPS

Some people maybe getting better numbers, but I am happy.

Just search the forums. for "easyubuntu"
drizek
January 14th, 2006, 03:31 AM
wow, i used to get better numbers on my geforce mx 440.

Anyway, nvidia 4ever. ive had 4 different cards and a billion different distros. never had a problem.
AMD64_N_Linux
January 14th, 2006, 03:51 AM
wow, i used to get better numbers on my geforce mx 440.

Anyway, nvidia 4ever. ive had 4 different cards and a billion different distros. never had a problem.

Are you confusing fgl_glxgears with simply glxgears

gandalf@gandalf:~$ glxgears
gandalf@gandalf:~$ glxgears -iacknowledgethatthistoolisnotabenchmark 21689 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4337.710 FPS
21007 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4201.275 FPS
23924 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4784.800 FPS
23928 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4785.441 FPS

And if you are getting much better FPS, I am proud of you. But I am doing the best I can with what I got. And for now, I am satisfied with my 3D output.
drizek
January 14th, 2006, 03:55 AM
sorry, i thought that was glxgears. and it wasnt meant to be a putdown to you or anything. i was just surprised cause i thought my mx 440(bought for 40 bucks off ebay about 3 years ago) was outperforming the 9800.
JimmyJazz
January 14th, 2006, 04:49 AM
yeah I would just switch to NVIDEA but since I have a laptop thats not exactly an easy process (I'm not even sure its possible)