Graphics in ubuntu on my laptop is not up to the mark

[ichfaisal]

I am using Ubuntu in Preserio Compaq v2000 note book from the last six months.i have ati redeon 128 mb graphics card and 512 mb ram and 3000+ amd processor.but i am still not able to watch youtube or any movie properly its very slow seems there is some problem of ubuntu with my graphics card would any body help me thanx in advance.

[coopstah13]

flash is a processor destroyer on linux, since adobe doesn't really care much about it it isn't optimized very well

you may need to install proprietary graphics driver, did you check system->hardware drivers menu to see if it is available?

[ichfaisal]

there is only driver is activated software modem i cant see any other option to search proprietary driver please help me i love to use and learn linux i dont want to go back to windows.

[devils casper]

Execute this in Terminal :

lspci | grep -i vga

Post output here.

[ichfaisal]

this is an output

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)
now what

[devils casper]

Is there any xorg.conf file in /etc/X11? Post its contents here.
Which version of Ubuntu are you using?

[JosePF]

Hello,
the driver that improves performance of video card in ATI cards is fglrx. This driver could be download from ati page or install it from synaptic running the below command in a terminal (i think that you must activate the canonical repository):
sudo apt-get install fglrx
This package provides 2D display drivers and hardware accelerated OpenGL.
By the other hand, you could install privative software from Adobe:
apt-get install flashplugin-installer
this can improve the performance of flash videos.

I hope this help you

[ichfaisal]

@JosePF
Yes thanks its working but there is now another problem encountered.now youtube videos are running smoothly but when i click on the full screen button it closes my all tabs and my mozilla fire fox.this problem has arrived after the installation of fglrx.

[JosePF]

hi,
first of all, what means @[myname], sorry, but i'm new in this forum. ;D
remove xserver-xorg-video-ati
if that dont fix the problem, remove fglrx and install again xserver-xorg-video-ati and check that firefox and youtube run fine.
fglrx could cause problems and native flash does not work very well.
You can also download last version of fglrx from ati what could works well and improve grafics.
I had intalled nvidia and ati drivers and ATI does not work so well (in my case).

[twoHats]

hi,
first of all, what means @[myname],.

Just that the reply is meant as a response to your earlier reply, as opposed to a general reply to all in the thread.

HTH