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I have a Radeon HD 5450 graphics card. Running Ubuntu 10.04. When I install the proprietary graphics drivers I get good video rendering (YouTube) and appropriate screen resolution. But when I open a browser window and scroll or move a window around I get terrible lagging which drives me nuts.

I now run in low graphics mode. I get poor video rendering and poor screen resolution but no scrolling issues or lagging windows. I run in low graphics mode because this is priority for me. I don't watch videos or care what my screen looks like. I just don't want lagging scrolling.

Any help?

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  • What version of the driver are you using?
    – R.K.
    Nov 28, 2011 at 3:06
  • Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! Have you tried tuning the settings in amd-ccle to see it fixes the problem?
    – William
    Nov 28, 2011 at 3:07
  • @William Additional information on what settings in particular he should try tweaking would be helpful. Nov 28, 2011 at 3:13
  • Well, antialising would be a good start. Do you have dual graphics cards?
    – William
    Nov 28, 2011 at 3:17
  • @William I do not have dual graphics cards. As for antialising, I am not familiar with that term. But I will be vigilant and google search it and see if that provides any help that way. I am also not familiar with amd-ccle and 'tweaking the settings' but again, some google searching is where I'll go with that. Thanks for the help and I'll tell you my results!
    – Adrian
    Nov 29, 2011 at 3:55

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You are probably using the outdated driver from the official repository, if you are looking for better performance you have to install the latest driver;for further information read the tutorials at http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Main_Page . Anyway i can give you 3 generic advice:

  • avoid the installation of the closed source official video driver from the official repository, they are really outdated in pratically every distribution
  • install the official closed source ATI AMD driver trough the creation of the deb packages ( as described in the link posted above )
  • the AMD ATI driver most of the times needs some tuning because the default settings are oriented to the power saving and a low profile in terms of performance, for say you have to manually enable the anti-tearing effect that otherwise is normal to have with this driver.
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  • Here is what I got: E: fglrx: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 10 E: fglrx-amdcccle: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
    – Adrian
    Dec 3, 2011 at 15:37
  • run sudo apt-get install -f , you probably forgot to install some dependencies.
    – Micro
    Dec 3, 2011 at 15:55
  • Believe me when I say I've run sudo apt-get install -f :D Boy have I tried that. As I go through the forums, it just looks like people in my predicament are going to have to deal. sigh I went through the steps outline by the wiki, all seemed well, but again I just get the errors above and am now running in low graphics mode AND have poor browser scrolling, which is what I was trying to avoid.
    – Adrian
    Dec 4, 2011 at 17:02
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You want might want to try installing the latest ATI Catalyst™ proprietary display drivers. Latest version's 11.11 if I'm not mistaken.

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  • Tried it! I got the following - E: fglrx: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 10 E: fglrx-amdcccle: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
    – Adrian
    Dec 4, 2011 at 17:05

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