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Xorg Memory Leak Fix for Jaunty 9.04 ATI Proprietary fglrx

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 [...]

ATI Proprietary fglrx Minimize/Maximize Fix for Jaunty 9.04

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 [...]

Adjusting Contrast, Brightness and Gamma on Linux. ATI Proprietary Driver (fglrx).

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.

Ubuntu Jaunty: ATI Restricted Proprietary FGLRX Driver, Direct Rendering, Mobility Radeon HD Series

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 [...]