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fglrx-installer package

  1. Bug #351186
  2. Comment #229

Comment 229 for bug 351186

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Michel (degreef-michel) wrote : Re: [M76] [ubuntu 9.04] slow unminimizing with ati card and desktop effects enabled

I think it has been mentioned before but it may be worth mentioning again.

I have a Radeon HD 3650 chipset and experienced this bug which, in my opinion, was a show stopper, within 6 hours of the official Jaunty release. It did shake my resolve to stick with Linux and very nearly reverted to Windows (sigh!). I only went exclusively Linux about a year ago.

The only satisfactory answer, for me, was to install ATI latest driver. It can be downloaded here: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx .

This makes my Jaunty Kubuntu work like it should albeit marginally slower than Intrepid Ibex version. I have not installed the suggested PPA. I do use compiz and all is fine and with acceptable speed with the latest driver (which I believe is different from the distro one).

I hope this may help somebody else.

It may help to post your experience with these drivers for other problematic ATI chip-sets.

Michel