[clug] Head up for those thinking of Ubunty Jaunty with older ATI cards

[Ian Bardsley]

G'Day

Thanks Andrew

A similar problem also appears to exist with some Intel chipsets too.  I 
tried the release candidate on my Acer note book with similar results.  
Haven't had an opportunity to try the final release yet but will comment 
agin when I have if the problem still exists.

Have a good day all

Ian Bardsley

Andrew Janke wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> If you plan on going to Ubuntu Jaunty and have an older ATI card that
> uses the Radeon driver be sure to take a read of these:
>
>    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/363238
>    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/365886
>
> Otherwise you might just be left with the (somewhat wrong) impression
> that Jaunty is slow and jerky..
>
> Seems that the default acceleration method changed from XAA to EXA in
> the radeon driver for the Jaunty release and not all cards like it
> that much. It is manifested as slow redraw/window moving/firefox
> scrolling/etc In my case the times reported by gtkperf halved when
> switching back to XAA.
>
> My machine: T42 Thinkpad with a ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility
> Radeon 9600 M10]
>
>
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