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mosquitogang201

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Registered: 2012-06-19

Posts: 37

Radeon X1250 / downgrading xorg to use fglrx?

I'm trying to set my wife's laptop up to run XBMC. It has an X1250 card in it and performance with the open source driver is terrible. I only get 300 fps in glxgears (compared to 3300 on my integrated GeForce 9300 computer from about the same time). All around it's still a decent computer other than ATI dropping support. I'm guessing the proper answer is buy a new laptop or go back to Windows, but I'm wondering, would it be possible without breaking things in Arch to go back to xorg 1.5 so that I can use the old fglrx driver? Does anyone else do this that has working pkgbuilds? Would this even give better performance? Kind of a big project (for me) so I'm wondering if it's even feasible before I start.

Last edited by mosquitogang201 (2014-10-05 12:48:30)

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 15,179

Re: Radeon X1250 / downgrading xorg to use fglrx?

keep in mind glxgears is NOT a benchmark tool.

If you want to switch to catalyst, there's no need to create your own pkgbuilds.
Check the catalyst wiki page.

you'll probably need the catalyst legacy driver,  catalyst-hd234k . That one doesn't work with anything newer then xorg 1.12 .
Both catalyst legacy and xorg 1.12 are available from unoffical repos, catalyst wiki page has details how to use them.

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Radioactiveman

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From: Germany

Registered: 2010-05-13

Posts: 389

Re: Radeon X1250 / downgrading xorg to use fglrx?

catalyst-hd234k works only with the HD2/3/4000 series.
The X1250 is older and is therefore only supported by the open source driver.