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eb1

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Registered: 2017-12-09

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RC410M [Mobility Radeon Xpress 200M] very slow performance

Hello,
Just installed arch and experiencing very slow performance on this GPU. It's a laptop asus pro50rl (I know old one) but still should run fine if setup properly. I want to at least read email without lagging like crazy. Is that too much to ask? :(

lspci | grep -e VGA -e 3D
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RC410M [Mobility Radeon Xpress 200M]

pacman -Ss xf86-video
extra/xf86-video-amdgpu 19.0.1-1 (xorg-drivers)
    X.org amdgpu video driver
extra/xf86-video-ati 1:19.0.1-1 (xorg-drivers) [installed]
    X.org ati video driver
extra/xf86-video-dummy 0.3.8-3 (xorg-drivers)
    X.org dummy video driver
extra/xf86-video-fbdev 0.5.0-1 (xorg-drivers)
    X.org framebuffer video driver
extra/xf86-video-intel 1:2.99.917+865+g60022507-1 (xorg-drivers)
    X.org Intel i810/i830/i915/945G/G965+ video drivers
extra/xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.16-1 (xorg-drivers)
    Open Source 3D acceleration driver for nVidia cards
extra/xf86-video-openchrome 0.6.0-3 (xorg-drivers)
    X.Org Openchrome drivers
extra/xf86-video-sisusb 0.9.7-2
    X.org SiS USB video driver
extra/xf86-video-vesa 2.4.0-2 (xorg-drivers xorg)
    X.org vesa video driver
extra/xf86-video-vmware 13.3.0-1 (xorg-drivers)
    X.org vmware video driver
extra/xf86-video-voodoo 1.2.5-10 (xorg-drivers)
    X.org 3dfx Voodoo1/Voodoo2 2D video driver
community/xf86-video-qxl 0.1.5-7 (xorg-drivers)
    Xorg X11 qxl video driver

I installed  pacman -S xf86-video-ati
Was that a mistake?

After reading on another forum https://bbs.archlinux32.org/viewtopic.php?id=2739 about a performance fix for this GPU I was interested to try it out.
How do I apply this fix to my installation?

Thank you.