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ATI Drivers and KDE4?

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WardLoockx
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RE: ATI Drivers and KDE4?

Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:31 pm
Allright switched back to fglrx (with driver download of website) and did a benchmark with glxgears (same program as benchmark with other open source drivers)... the results, here they are

ward@ward-desktop:~/downloads$ glxgears
11369 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2270.307 FPS
10993 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2197.166 FPS
11125 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2224.955 FPS
11149 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2229.796 FPS
11485 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2295.541 FPS
11533 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2306.585 FPS


This is the best thing I can get of my ati 1650 (any other suggestions or tweaks are welcome)!

Somebody that knows when I used the opensource drivers my amarok lost it's collection info and didn't get ratings etc (@startup he said couldn't start klauncher), when I switched back to fglrx drivers everything was fine again!The only problem I have now is when I play video and desktop effects are turned on, the video flickrs very hard. Any suggestions on this problem?

Here is the xorg.conf I used for the latest configuration.


Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "be"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
# Driver "radeonhd"
Driver "fglrx"
# Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
#Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
#Option "AccelDFS" "true"
# Option "ColorTiling" "on"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection


Thanks for all the good advice! Hope others can learn from my experience!
Ward


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