Ati Cards on Linux

I just chucked Ubuntu 11.04 on my Sony Vaio laptop, because Windoze 7 took a dive..

Anyway it has an ATI Mobility 5145 which ran well and smooth with Unity with the open source drivers...HOWEVER, I installed the proprietary drivers because the open source ones don't have power management and my video card was just screaming along at full fan speed the whole time and was loud

The blob drivers aren't quite as smooth as the open source drivers for some 2D stuff, like compiz effects, but eh, good enough.

eldersnake wrote:I just chucked Ubuntu 11.04 on my Sony Vaio laptop, because Windoze 7 took a dive..

Anyway it has an ATI Mobility 5145 which ran well and smooth with Unity with the open source drivers...HOWEVER, I installed the proprietary drivers because the open source ones don't have power management and my video card was just screaming along at full fan speed the whole time and was loud

The blob drivers aren't quite as smooth as the open source drivers for some 2D stuff, like compiz effects, but eh, good enough.

Regarding the blob drivers not being as smooth, from what I've read it seems that the fix for that is to install the compizconfig-settings-manager. Once installed, run it and go to "OpenGL" and by default the "Sync to VBlank" option is going to be enabled. Disable it.

Then reboot. Seems to work for a lot of people.

Oooooh really, thanks man, I'll have to try it

Anyone had any luck fixing the stupid black screen when recording fullscreen games crap?

almigi wrote:

eldersnake wrote:I just chucked Ubuntu 11.04 on my Sony Vaio laptop, because Windoze 7 took a dive..

Anyway it has an ATI Mobility 5145 which ran well and smooth with Unity with the open source drivers...HOWEVER, I installed the proprietary drivers because the open source ones don't have power management and my video card was just screaming along at full fan speed the whole time and was loud

The blob drivers aren't quite as smooth as the open source drivers for some 2D stuff, like compiz effects, but eh, good enough.

Regarding the blob drivers not being as smooth, from what I've read it seems that the fix for that is to install the compizconfig-settings-manager. Once installed, run it and go to "OpenGL" and by default the "Sync to VBlank" option is going to be enabled. Disable it.

Then reboot. Seems to work for a lot of people.

That worked great! Thanks!

I solved my ATI recording issues perfectly with a new nvidia card.
I would say I wish I had gone down nvidia route to start with, but that useless Gigabyte motherboard wouldn't work with nvidia cards... So I dunno either way I ended up loosing £70 (£10 on the ATI card and £60 mobo)

well im running on my laptop, but i have to use distros with older kernel suchac as debian 6 and ubuntu lts. everytime i try to run lets say oneiric or precise pangolin alpha, after install i get a black screen. i simply dont find any info on how to setup hybrid graphics.... any thoughts?