On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> writes: > On Lu, 29 nov 10, 02:13:08, Volkan YAZICI wrote: >> On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> writes: >> > On Du, 28 nov 10, 13:41:52, Volkan YAZICI wrote: >> >> I have a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4500 Series VGA controller. It's binary >> >> drivers are miserably useless. (Even scrolling in Firefox lags.) Hence, >> > >> > While I don't like the ATI binary drivers this is not normal. Do you >> > have firmware-linux-nonfree installed? >> >> No. It's not needed. I downloaded the ati-foo-bar-baz.bin directly from >> the ATI website. It installs the precompiled modules and any required >> firmware files. > > My brother's laptop has the same (or a very similar) card, but 3d > performance is satisfactory. Did you check you dmesg and Xorg.0.log for > errors? Does 'glxinfo | grep rendering' show > > direct rendering: Yes
I didn't play with the settings that much. But here[1] is a related bug report. It is a little bit dated, but I reproduced the exactly same behaviour. Regards. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=454186 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87d3poy30a....@alamut.ozu.edu.tr