tjfitz
December 7th, 2011, 05:49 AM
Hi, I have a Thinkpad T42 which uses an ATI gpu.
$ sudo lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]With the out-of-the-box drivers, my video performance is sluggish and I want to speed things up.
According to Guide to Laptop Video Cards and 3D Options (http://www.guide-to-laptops.com/guides/laptop-video-3d.html), this gpu is DirectX9 capable. It would be nice not only to get faster 2D performance, but to get the 3D abilities going, too.
Doing some searching, I discovered that fglrx is the binary driver for this, but when I installed it and rebooted, the cpu was running at 100% nonstop, the window manager was freaking out (i.e. the focus on the top window was flashing on and off making it impossible to use the terminal), and when I tried to get out of X with cntrl-alt-F1, it just paused a second and kicked me right back to X. Fortunately I was able to uninstall it, and apparently no harm was done.
I remember what a pain it was to get NVidia drivers working on my desktop years ago, so I'm just going to ask what to do before I break something!
$ sudo lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]With the out-of-the-box drivers, my video performance is sluggish and I want to speed things up.
According to Guide to Laptop Video Cards and 3D Options (http://www.guide-to-laptops.com/guides/laptop-video-3d.html), this gpu is DirectX9 capable. It would be nice not only to get faster 2D performance, but to get the 3D abilities going, too.
Doing some searching, I discovered that fglrx is the binary driver for this, but when I installed it and rebooted, the cpu was running at 100% nonstop, the window manager was freaking out (i.e. the focus on the top window was flashing on and off making it impossible to use the terminal), and when I tried to get out of X with cntrl-alt-F1, it just paused a second and kicked me right back to X. Fortunately I was able to uninstall it, and apparently no harm was done.
I remember what a pain it was to get NVidia drivers working on my desktop years ago, so I'm just going to ask what to do before I break something!