Issues with ATI drivers in All Things Unix http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21101342 en Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:10:36 EDT Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:10:36 EDT Re: Issues with ATI drivers http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21107476 vukodlak75 : I still consider myself a newbie, so if it ain't broke don't fix it is my motto right now. I'll be keeping an eye out on this thread for future reference. Good luck.
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said by vukodlak75 See Profile :

My 4 year old Dell has an ATI video card. I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 and have no problems. All I did was enable "restricted drivers" and Ubuntu installed ATI drivers automatically (I assume).
I did install it that was originally and it was simple enough, but trying other drivers left me in a bit of a broken state. Not sure what went wrong, but at least my monitor is correctly detected now.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21107422 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:42:41 EDT Re: Issues with ATI drivers http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21107387 vukodlak75 : My 4 year old Dell has an ATI video card. I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 and have no problems. All I did was enable "restricted drivers" and Ubuntu installed ATI drivers automatically (I assume).
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»forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=70881

Catalyst control center says Driver is version 8.52.3

I'm current. That is the version 8.8 currently available for download. If I run a 1080i or 720p video full screen, I get the crappy performance others get with compiz enabled.

Under KNOWN ISSUES for the current driver on the ATI page:
quote:
The entire X desktop including the mouse cursor is choppy during playback of video files or suzi test app

Yeah, that's the problem.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21107363 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:17:04 EDT Re: Issues with ATI drivers http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21107334 Vampirefo : hse have you read this instructions for installing drivers in Ubuntu? »lug.rose-hulman.edu/wiki/HOWTO:_···sion_ATi

This is quite different then the way I install them in my distro, if you have disregard, if not you might want to try them.
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Best Regards Vampirefo ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21107334 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:00:05 EDT Re: Issues with ATI drivers http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21107293 Vampirefo :
said by JohnInSJ See Profile :

said by Vampirefo See Profile :

I really don't understand your problem compiz works flawlessly for me, I don't use it but have installed it just to test. I think the problem is perhaps your distro not the graphic card.

Compiz works GREAT... Compiz + video overlay is broken in the ATI Driver. Reading comprehension?
I have posts read to me thanks for your concern, I don't see this problem, so that's what I don't understand, perhaps it is a problem for you, what driver version are you using?
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Best Regards Vampirefo ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21107293 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:40:59 EDT Re: Issues with ATI drivers http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21107246 JohnInSJ :
said by Vampirefo See Profile :

I really don't understand your problem compiz works flawlessly for me, I don't use it but have installed it just to test. I think the problem is perhaps your distro not the graphic card.

Compiz works GREAT... Compiz + video overlay is broken in the ATI Driver. Reading comprehension?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21107246 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:23:37 EDT Re: Issues with ATI drivers http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21107238 Vampirefo : I really don't understand your problem compiz works flawlessly for me, I don't use it but have installed it just to test. I think the problem is perhaps your distro not the graphic card.

fglrxinfo shows that it's using Mesa for some reason never seen that, but I see from your links what distro it is, so again I think the blame is the distro not the card.
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Best Regards Vampirefo ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21107238 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:21:08 EDT Re: Issues with ATI drivers http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21107229 JohnInSJ :
said by Hayward See Profile :

No that is sort of a load o crap...
It may be a load of crap, but it's also my personal experience.

I'm running 8.04 on three machines. Two have nvidia cards. The third has an ATI card. Which cannot run video overlay with compiz? The ati.

Other then that, there have been no problems with 8.04.

And if you google around, you'll see it's clearly the driver, not the distro that has the problem. You'll also see that it's a problem ATI has known about and not addressed in their linux driver for quite a while now.

But that's just my experience.

Agreed the mesa issue is fixable. Just follow any of the fixing mesa under ati pages. And turn off compiz if you want to have some kind of video. I've got mine so it's at least visible if I run video in vlc non-fullscreen, which is better then a big black square, at least.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21107229 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:12:19 EDT Re: Issues with ATI drivers http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21107005 Hayward :
said by JohnInSJ See Profile :

Yep. ATI drools Nvidia rules. A $50 nvidia card will play video smooth as glass, while my $300 ATI card shudders, flashes, or whatever else you want to call it. Pretty much useless.
No that is sort of a load o crap...

ATI machine and moving (upgrade) from (no problems) 7.x to 8.04 BIG problems/mistake... mostly audio but also video... went back to 7.x all is good again. (Almost WIN upgrade type of problems... the working drivers were all there, but replaced with problematic generics seemingly and why? Idon't think there was any major bus bit change or anything that would mandate that kind of thing)

Larger problem is 8.04 was just not ready for prime time... as 08 is almost over maybe the community will get it right on 09 9.x

Even the Gurus admited 8 was barely out of Beta when (prematurely) released as the new great thing. Hopefully they will do better on the next round, or possibly 8 update before years end.
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21107005 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 03:40:54 EDT Re: Issues with ATI drivers http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21106808 disturbed1 : This is a long known issue with ATI cards. They do not properly support overlay for video rendering.

Turn off compiz, or use opengl, or xshm to render the video.

However, fglrxinfo shows that it's using Mesa for some reason.

Is also a known issue with ATI drivers. »www.google.com/search?q=fglrxinf···irefox-a

ATI cards can work well for high FPS in some games, but stability with laptops, and video playback seem to be an issue. But hey, at least with open code, we now have 2 drivers that don't work :D]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21106808 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:32:27 EDT Re: Issues with ATI drivers http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21106782 Vampirefo : I have no ideal how Ubuntu installs drivers, I use pclinuxos gnome version. I go to »ati.amd.com/support/driver.HTML
select the driver for my card, download to Desktop.

open console cd Desktop
su
password

sh ./ ati-driver-installer-8-8-x86.x86_64.run

allow driver to install

at the end of install I type aticonfig, this displays several options I choose the option I want, which is option 1. aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf

I copy and paste that option in console and then reboot.

Never had a problem.
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Best Regards Vampirefo ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21106782 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:18:22 EDT Re: Issues with ATI drivers http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21106575 hse : Alright, I'm having some major issues getting my screen res to set. I had tried changing drivers, ran into some issues and would like to go back to fglrx.

I have the restricted drivers, xorg-driver-fglrx installed, and have fglrx specified as the driver in xorg.conf. However, fglrxinfo shows that it's using Mesa for some reason.

My screen appears to not be detected with the right resolution until I have the driver installed - so I am running at 800x600 now :-/ It keeps bringing up the "Ubuntu is running in low graphics mode" whenever I start.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21106575 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:41:48 EDT Re: Issues with ATI drivers http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21106459 Vampirefo : I only use ati cards never had a problem, as far as Nvidia rules they rule in the amount of computers they have burnt up, last I read it was going to cost the company around 200 million to fix the damage their cards caused.

»www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2···dia.html
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21106459 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:07:04 EDT Re: Issues with ATI drivers http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21106437 hse : I did a fresh install though. Currently using fglrx, maybe radeonhd is better?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21106437 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:02:51 EDT Re: Issues with ATI drivers http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21106419 netjunk : If nvidia is still the same as it was before, you will have to properly clean it up by deleting any files/configs it left behind as some apps auto-configure itself by checking for certain files (libs, modules, etc). OP's problem is probably caused by softwae conflict due to nvidia crap it left behind. Ati drivers are pretty bad, but they are cleaner compare to nvidia's. A lot of people don't realize that nvidia is just as bad as Ati, if not worse, just because nvidia drivers are "functioning" better.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21106419 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:57:29 EDT Re: Issues with ATI drivers http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21102316 hse : Grr, I was really hoping there was something that could be done. I was going to go Nvidia again with the new build, but ATI had some very compelling price/performance cards.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21102316 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:24:24 EDT Re: Issues with ATI drivers http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21101641 JohnInSJ : Yep. ATI drools Nvidia rules. A $50 nvidia card will play video smooth as glass, while my $300 ATI card shudders, flashes, or whatever else you want to call it. Pretty much useless.

Google around. You'll be as amazed as I was a couple weeks ago, when I found out just how bad the ATI linux drivers *still* are.

Apparently this feature has existed for a couple years.

Not that it helps you much, but you're not alone.
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Any ideas?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21101342 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:52:52 EDT