Laggy Display?

[Jame]

When I scroll on webpages or move windows or do anything graphics wise it seems to be laggy. I mean, it is choppy, not very smooth at all. I have an ATI X600 video card and plenty of memory. I don't have this problem in Windows. Any idea why it is acting like this?

[Grub]

Did you install the ATI video drivers?

[mop]

I have the same problem with version 2.0.13 of FF and ATI.

[Tor]

What driver version of ATI do you have installed?

[TotalPenguin]

Well it's a video card problem IMO. I used to have that on windows before I installed the graphics card.

[Tor]

That is what I'm thinking. Its hard sometimes to get the correct driver working.

[TotalPenguin]

Well depends. On Ubuntu I got my nvidia working just fine... and on Sabayon live CD it automatically detected it.

[Rabscuttle]

Wtih as many isues as nVidia and ATI are having with just Windows drivers - you almost expect the Linux drivers to be even less refined.. That being said, i have alwats had realy good luck with nVidia chipsets (from the 5xxx, 6xxx, 7xxx series and even the laptop Go discrete GPUs) in many distys of Linux (Ubuntu, Debian and SuSE enterprise).. Maybe pick yourself up a cheap 5xxx card and see how that does.

[EugenS]

That never happened to me on Windows, is Linux gonna do stuff like that after I install it?

[chown]

ATI has bad drivers for Linux. Have you see the ATI petition to "Demand better drivers"? If you want to use Linux you should go with Nvidia for now.