Memory leak fixed on my sony vaio laptop with an HD3400 series. NOT completely, xorg will still leak over time (about 60mb over 8 hours and I think some of this memory is re-used for effects which will not increase the memory any further when opening, closing, etc). The change is DRASTIC compared to what [...]
After a few weeks, a patch has been released a few days ago that fixes the fglrx lag when minimizing, maximizing or opening a window on ubuntu jaunty 9.04. The lag was severe freezing the entire desktop for 1-3 seconds, almost making desktop effects unbearable to use.
For those who would prefer to compile xorg;
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26424345/107_fedora_dont_backfill_bg_none.patch
PPA is [...]
If you have the ati driver installed correctly and have xorg setup correctly, you can easily change the brightness, contrast and gamma on linux.
I could not find anywhere on google a single search result except for setting gamma, so I post this here.
To start off I am no expert. I am a windows convert about a week ago now. However, I’m grabbing Linux by the horns and loving it!
The reason I am posting this is because it took me several hours to figure this out. I could not find in one place an organized concise approach. I’d [...]