Fwd: Request to update ATi OSS driver for Fedora 12

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Thu Oct 29 18:07:06 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 21:09 +0800, Liang Suilong wrote:

> I found other problems in Fedora 12. I do not know whether they are
> related to ATi KMS and opensource dirvers or not. 
> 
> 
> First Problem:
> 
> 
> Adobe flash player seems to take up too much cpu usage. It makes
> machine run slow. If I open too many web page full of flash, no matter
> in chromium or in firefox, It is too slow. I almost can not do
> anything. Firefox looks a little better than chormium. maybe there is
> a bug of chromium , or adobe flash player or ATi's driver. I can not
> make sure. I test on another desktop (NVIDIA card). It looks better.
> CPU usage is still very high, however, flash player runs enough
> smoothly. And then, Tom 'spot' Callaway has not pushed a new upgrade
> for chromium browser. But I do not want to disturbing him. I just wait
> for him silently. Haha!

How's this with the 'nomodeset' parameter?

> Second Problem:
> 
> 
> I try to hibernate my desktop. Later I wake them up. The brightness of
> LCD screen is not normal. It is too low. I nearly can not see what is
> it in the screen. I switch to tty console. It is the same with GUI
> environment. My screen is LG L1953T 19" inch flat screen. Is the bug
> related to ATi drivers?

Try running this command after resuming:

xgamma -r 1.0

does that do the trick?

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