I have ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series graphic card. Was using Open source drivers and are decent. Hangs little bit sometimes but are fine most of the time
Recently, I have seen ATI released 12.2 drivers. Has any one tried them ? Are they working fine ? Can I try them ?
I'm using gnome-shell and I had installed 12.1 drivers working well. I updated to 12.2 yesterday. I had to downgrade this morning to 12.1 again because everything wents very slow. My system was slow/sluggish, cpu was always high with 100% peeks as Freaky said.
I'm not happy with this new version :/
UPDATED: 2012-03-16
Seems that my problems were because the dual monitor configuration. After disabled one monitor everything went smooth again (as 12.1).
You can install them following the instructions found here
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Oneiric_Installation_Guide
Read the guide carefully, and it will go OK.
If anything breaks, most possibly you will not get any graphics, be sure to write down the necessary commands to return to the original state. Just hit Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to a command line and enter the commands.
It has happened to me before, but removing the drivers and returning to the open source ones fixed it. However, generally the proprietary drivers are faster and support better 3d performance.
The GUI installer found on ATI site never worked for me so I do not recommend it. The above method worked every time.
Running swell here on my ASUS 1015-B netbook with hybrid AMD graphics. Things are much smoother now with Ubuntu 11.10 64, especially Unity and full screen movies with VLC 2.0
I'm using amd-driver-installer-12-1-x86.x86_64 on ubuntu 11.10 x64. after some tweaks found on the net for compiz and so it's OK.
Whow, things horribly suck for me (I'm on gentoo though). gnome-sell consumes 8% CPU by default, bouncing a simple gnome terminal up and down gets it to 100% easily.
Once again a fantastic release from AMD/Ati, I knew I should have gotten a nVidia card.
