ATI Radeon X1200

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Mitchell Velasquez
<mitchellvc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, Im using a ATI Radeon X1200 (RS690) with the driver radeon. I have
> updated my xserver-xorg, the xserver-xorg-ati, xserver-xorg-radeon, xserver-
> xorg-radeonhd to the ones from jaunty, so my system is intrepid with xserver
> from jaunty. That only because i want to have the latest release of open
> source drivers (radeon or radeonhd) to make my card work. Testing the radeon
> driver, the performance is better than fglrx wich reached 220 FPS with
> glxgears, and now it shows 380 FPS with radeon driver, but from time to time
> there is some flickering in the whole screen that makes appear as  if the x-
> server were going to crash. That lasts only a little fraction of a second and
> it does not happen frecuently. That behavior is continuous with the radeon
> driver distributed with intrepid, so i think it has been improved in
> performance and stability. I attached my x.log and my xorg.conf. How can I
> improve the performance even more? because with that FPS I can't run compiz.
> P.D. I think it has something to do with ubuntu because with debian lenny and
> latest fglrx I got 800 FPS, and i was able to run compiz flawlessly.

glxgears is not a benchmark.  compiz should work fine on the rs690.
As to the flickering, try:
Option "DisplayPriority" "HIGH"
in the device section of your config and see if that helps.

Alex