I had speed issues, as well as anomalies on the background images of some websites, like http://slackware.com/. Most annoyingly was the horrible hanging in the visual editor when making a new post in WordPress. This is using Slackware 12.2 and either Firefox 3.0.11 or 3.5.1, with or without safe mod.
Here’s how I solved the issue.
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Visit
https://web.archive.org/web/20100211112701/http://ati.amd.com:80/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeon.html - In the leftmost column, select
Linux x86 - In the next column, select
Radeon - In the last column, select
ATI Radeon 9600 Series - Click
Go - Scroll down and click
Download - Open up a terminal
cdto your download location.chmod ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run(or whatever your filename is)su./ati-driver-installer-9-3-x86.x86_64.run(or whatever your filename is)- Choose
Install Driver 8.593 n X.Org 7.1 7.2 7.3(or whatever you see) - Continue the installation.
- After completion, run
aticonfig --initial -f -
reboot
I ended up installing my kernel headers because I wanted to make a distribution package, but that didn’t work easily enough and I didn’t want to troubleshoot.
Now I need to solve an odd sound issue and Slackware 12.2 will be working the way I want.
