Lucid drivers for Laptop with ATI Radeon mobility X1600 faulty

[Tiko]

I tried this on a fresh install of 10.04 and I at least got it out of the slow motion effect and it seems to runs fine. The only issue is that I can't activate the visual effects but otherwise it's a step forward for usability at least.

Thanks I tried the method, though fglrx stuff doesn't seem to work for me. And I'm not sure where to check what driver is actually being used. The closest I have of a report summary is from the benchmark tools (attached kernel and display report at bottom).
Not sure why my "VIDEO" is "ACPI Video Driver"

I'm using mobility radeon here, so AMD don't directly support it. The vendors for my laptop seems to only have window's drivers, and I'm too noob to port it to linux.

Anyway I traced your link to a bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...er/+bug/494699
Seems like X11 has issues with ATI, or vice versa.

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