Hello,
I have been using Trisquel for about two months now, and I have some issues
with performance. I know that with all-free software I cannot expect to run
everything as fast as with proprietary software, but I wonder whether the
behavior of my system is normal:
- YouTube videos work (only when viewed in seperate window) but when playing
a video, the fan speed goes up and cpu usage goes up from 5% to about 80% for
both cores. This also happens when running 'glxgears', only then one cpu core
at a time is used. Same goes for playing games like scorched3D which run too
slow. I have the open ati driver installed (from Mesa).
- Desktop effects don't work even though I have Compiz installed. It thought
this might have something to do with it.
My system specs:
Asus A6je laptop
Intel Core 2 duo T5600 @1.83GHz
2 GB RAM
120 GB harddisk
ATI Mobility Radeon X1450 ("RV515")
It says on the ubuntuforums (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver)
that the R520 series, on which the RV515 is based
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_R520), is supported by the free ati
driver. Doesn't that mean that things like glxgears and games should at least
partly run with hardware acceleration? I really want to use free software as
much as possible, so if anyone knows how to fix these issues, I would be
grateful.
Cheers,
Gnoob
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