Ubuntu 10.10. Issues.

[Lead Head]

I'm having some issues with Ubuntu 10.10 and an ATI Radeon HD 4770. Every time I install the AMD Proprietary drivers, the whole system becomes terribly unresponsive. The mouse jerks around the screen lazily, Gnome responds slow, but fancy graphical animations still work fine? Any ideas?

[Lead Head]

Gave up. Tried updating the kernel, tried multiple driver updates. Going back to 10.04.

[Refalm]

You could've tried this first:

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

[Lead Head]

Tried updating X as well. No luck. Seems to be a widespread issue with a 24 page thread on the Ubuntu forums. There is no solid fix. Guess what? 10.04 started doing the same damn thing.

I'm going to give Fedora 14 a try and see if its an issue with this computer, or Ubuntu.

[Lead Head]

Well not even Fedora running KDE resolved the issue. Looks like it is some big problem between X and ATI.