Howto: Fix Performance of ATI Drivers with Compiz on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

[jonathank89]

I wrote this howto after finally finding a fix the the crappy ATI proprietary driver performance, mainly the slow maximizing and resizing of windows. Now I'm not sure if it'll work for everyone, but it worked for me and many others. What it basically does is patches your xserver-common and xserver-xorg-core and does something to something called backfill.

Check out my write up here (http://friendlytechninja.com/2009/11/29/howto-fix-performance-of-ati-drivers-with-compiz-on-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala/)

http://friendlytechninja.com/2009/11/29/howto-fix-performance-of-ati-drivers-with-compiz-on-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala/

Hope it helps some people,

Jonathan

PS. If you have any other fixes for the proprietary drivers like optimized xorg.conf files then post below.

[IGITIHI]

Thanks a lot for your post, it worked for me!

[e2k]

Thanks, worked for me too! :)

[mounty1512]

Hi,
I used this the other day and it worked great. I have reinstalled Ubuntu and tried to load the page again but i think the server is down or something. Can u guys tell me what source i need to add to my list please. Thanks
Great work btw.