Archive for May 13th, 2009

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 I was seeing. Before this xorg would leak anywhere between 500-700mb over 4 hours of use.

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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 available here;
https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/xserver-no-backfill

Launchpad link for this bug;
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/351186