Just tested the drivers, video playback tear and GUI lag are still there.
We can cross 7.7.0-1 off the list.


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On 1 September 2016 at 09:46, Dennis Mayr <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Excellent, downloading right now...
>
> El jue., 1 de septiembre de 2016 8:46, Timo Aaltonen <[email protected]>
> escribió:
>
>> alright, uploaded to ppa:tjaalton/test
>>
>> https://launchpad.net/~tjaalton/+archive/ubuntu/test
>>
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>> report.
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1610591
>>
>> Title:
>>   Video acceleration regression for Radeon Xpress 200M (r300) in xorg-
>>   lts-xenial & xorg-lts-wily
>>
>> Status in xserver-xorg-driver-ati:
>>   Unknown
>> Status in xserver-xorg-video-ati package in Ubuntu:
>>   Incomplete
>>
>> Bug description:
>>   After updating the Ubuntu HWE stack in 14.04 to Xenial (kernel 4.4 and
>>   xserver-xorg-video-radeon-lts-xenial), system boots up fine and
>>   responsively, but screen is laggy; there is a tremendous performance
>>   regression in comparison to xorg-lts-vivid. Lots of video tearing that
>>   did not occur when using xserver-xorg-video-radeon-lts-vivid.
>>
>>   System is an older Pentium laptop (Packard Bell EasyNote) with a Radeon
>> Xpress 200M chip (r300 driver). Video acceleration was working with DRI2
>> under the Vivid stack (kernel 3.19-64-lowlatency +
>> xserver-xorg-video-radeon-lts-vivid).
>>   I also tried upgrading to the Wily kernel (4.2.0-lowlatency), and video
>> acceleration works fine with the Vivid xorg.
>>
>>   I reported this in launchpad previously, and it was dismissed as
>> "invalid" since Wily is EOL.
>>   The problem, however, persists in the Xenial stack, so I'm reporting it
>> here.
>>
>>   Attached are the respective Xorg.0 logs.
>>
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  Video acceleration regression for Radeon Xpress 200M (r300) in xorg-
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