My Toshiba Satellite U405D-S2852 sports a decidedly underpowered display device, which I've seen called simply "Radeon 3100" but I strongly suspect is actually the Mobile HD 3100 integrated graphics device, based on the AMD 780v chipset.
I tried installing the "proprietary ATI" drivers offered to me right after I got Kubuntu 8.10 installed, the ones you can get by going to Kmenu->System->Hardware Drivers applet. They kinda sorta work, but not really. 2D performance is better. 3D is there, as is the Catalyst Control Center, but 3D video is flickery. I haven't had this problem using the ATI proprietary drivers on another machine, which runs Kubuntu 8.04.1 & has a Radeon X1650 card.
Is there another set of drivers I can use, or some other way to get rid of this flickering problem? The flickering is constant in any window running a 3D app, and makes said 3D apps pretty much unusable.
I've tested this so far with both Neverputt and Neverball from the Intrepid Ibex repository.
Also: Urban Terror 4.1 is totally unplayable. Starting from a fresh install, I get a garbled screen, almost as if it were trying to use a display mode the hardware can't support. Since it's a notebook, I'm stuck with the 1280x800 display mode. Is there something I should tweak in the Catalyst Control Center? I suspect UT is trying to use some sort of 4:3 aspect ratio display mode, which may be from where the problem stems.
I tried installing the "proprietary ATI" drivers offered to me right after I got Kubuntu 8.10 installed, the ones you can get by going to Kmenu->System->Hardware Drivers applet. They kinda sorta work, but not really. 2D performance is better. 3D is there, as is the Catalyst Control Center, but 3D video is flickery. I haven't had this problem using the ATI proprietary drivers on another machine, which runs Kubuntu 8.04.1 & has a Radeon X1650 card.
Is there another set of drivers I can use, or some other way to get rid of this flickering problem? The flickering is constant in any window running a 3D app, and makes said 3D apps pretty much unusable.
I've tested this so far with both Neverputt and Neverball from the Intrepid Ibex repository.
Also: Urban Terror 4.1 is totally unplayable. Starting from a fresh install, I get a garbled screen, almost as if it were trying to use a display mode the hardware can't support. Since it's a notebook, I'm stuck with the 1280x800 display mode. Is there something I should tweak in the Catalyst Control Center? I suspect UT is trying to use some sort of 4:3 aspect ratio display mode, which may be from where the problem stems.
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