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fglrx-installer package

  1. Bug #195834 (ati-radeon-hd2400)
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 195834

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote : Re: [Hardy Alfa 5] Ati fglrx graphic is slow, diagonal lines and slow refreshes

This bit in the .old log looks suspicious:

II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
(II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
(II) AIGLX: Resuming AIGLX clients after VT switch
(II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
(II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
(II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
(II) AIGLX: Resuming AIGLX clients after VT switch
(II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
(II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
(II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
(II) AIGLX: Resuming AIGLX clients after VT switch
(II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
(II) fglrx(0): Shutdown CMMQS
(EE) fglrx(0): [drm] failed to remove DRM signal handler
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0x5680000 at 0xb7f3c000
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] Closed DRM master.

The other logs don't show it though, so perhaps it's coincidental.

I notice you're running XAA; have you tried using EXA instead? (I'm not sure if -fglrx uses EXA, but the acceleration type often has a performance impact.