I am attempting again to solve problems between ATI Radeon HD 5800 series (5830) GPU and Ubuntu. Three months ago I posted:
Display difficulties with Ubuntu 12.10, Dual Monitors, and ATI HD 5800
I have 3 months of experience to draw from. Now I can be a little more concise once I get a sense of direction.
My goal is to solve these symptoms: HD video playback stutters, and display still tears when dragging windows.
Here is a basic outline of my system:
I am going to run the phoronix-test-suite tonight, and post the graphics specific results, to evaluate progress. I am not attached to propriatary drivers; if there is a fix, I would love to implement it.
Thank you philanthropic debuggers, I am looking forwards to finally fixing this! =)
-J