Noob Ubuntu question

[sanadanosa]

I just installed Mint 15 cinnamon on my pc, it works great, but when I install it on my notebook (AMD C60 use xorg something built in driver), it become full of lags and can't even run 720p h264 videos properly. I heard that AMD driver is not so good on Linux, is it true?

 

[Aquinus]

I just installed Mint 15 cinnamon on my pc, it works great, but when I install it on my notebook (AMD C60 use xorg something built in driver), it become full of lags and can't even run 720p h264 videos properly. I heard that AMD driver is not so good on Linux, is it true?

It used to be true. I've found FGLRX to be much more stable and perfomant than it used to be, at least in Ubuntu. It's worth giving it a shot. Make sure to go with the stable version whatever it is in the package manager. I don't recommend using the installer from AMD's site.

# This should do the trick.
sudo aptitude install fglrx

 

[sanadanosa]

It used to be true. I've found FGLRX to be much more stable and perfomant than it used to be, at least in Ubuntu. It's worth giving it a shot. Make sure to go with the stable version whatever it is in the package manager. I don't recommend using the installer from AMD's site.

# This should do the trick.
sudo aptitude install fglrx

thank you for the suggestion, I should give it try

 

[sanadanosa]

It used to be true. I've found FGLRX to be much more stable and perfomant than it used to be, at least in Ubuntu. It's worth giving it a shot. Make sure to go with the stable version whatever it is in the package manager. I don't recommend using the installer from AMD's site.

# This should do the trick.
sudo aptitude install fglrx

I use fgrlx now. It is better than built-in driver but not by much, not even at the same level as windows driver. Maybe there is problem with linux runing on C60. It's a bit of disappointment.

 

[Aquinus]

I use fgrlx now. It is better than built-in driver but not by much, not even at the same level as windows driver. Maybe there is problem with linux runing on C60. It's a bit of disappointment.

What are you doing to judge the performance between the two? 2D performance isn't better in FGLRX, you use FGLRX because you want 3D performance. Plus, the C60 doesn't exactly have a powerful iGPU, you have to keep that in mind as well.

 

[sanadanosa]

What are you doing to judge the performance between the two? 2D performance isn't better in FGLRX, you use FGLRX because you want 3D performance. Plus, the C60 doesn't exactly have a powerful iGPU, you have to keep that in mind as well.

I don't use it for playing games or something like that. I know HD 6290 is not a good gpu for 3D. What I'm talking is about 2D performance. UI responsiveness is improve with fglrx but 720p video playback still horrible compared to windows. I use both vlc and built-in video player. Am I missing something like plugins? Or maybe I should use MATE version instead? I'm sorry for being dumb. All of these linux things is just new for me

 

[Aquinus]

I don't use it for playing games or something like that. I know HD 6290 is not a good gpu for 3D. What I'm talking is about 2D performance. UI responsiveness is improve with fglrx but 720p video playback still horrible compared to windows. I use both vlc and built-in video player. Am I missing something like plugins? Or maybe I should use MATE version instead? I'm sorry for being dumb. All of these linux things is just new for me

What are you using to play the video back with? Is it possible that whatever you're using isn't configured to do GPU offload and it's being done on the CPU? What does your CPU usage look like when you're playing video?