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ATI has made a change in their fglrx catalyst drivers (9.5+) where setting the gamma in xorg.conf no longer works and is ignored when starting. In my previous post I went over setting and making these adjustments. The previous methods for Contrast and Brightness remain. However for gamma, the only way and previously existing method is [...] If you’re having issues with fullscreen video playback, this may help. The issues may range from hard lock’s and crashes to poor performance and flickering. The flickering issues may not go away with this tweak, but performance should be better and crashes should stop. 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; 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 [...] |
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