Quote Originally Posted by justapost View Post
You need the fglrx drivers for the hd2600xt, last time i tried ubuntu that packages where available.
Yea I removed the old fglrx drivers as they did not mention support for 2600XT and 2600XT is known to have problems with Ubuntu 64b (not 32b, 32b is flawless) and tried installing the new downloaded package from AMD's site. No go, it says file/directory not found while it's there.
Have you inspected the logfiles if an app freezes? (dmesg or /var/log/kern.log)
Too many files are corrupt and unrecoverable after reboot and after running fsck they're either not there or empty. The problem is mainly with two apps, if I don't touch Add/Remove/Synaptic or Restricted Driver Access, I get no crash/bug. So I can't install or search much.
It's stable at 2.5GHz I assume.
The hangs happen at stock and at any MHz but 2.626GHz is max stable if I don't use those above apps.
As for power consumption there is no k10 cnq driver for linux yet.
Yeah but without CnQ, the power consumption is av. 11W AC higher idling in Gutsy 64b than XP 32b. There's also a lot of background happenings which make power be from 122-135W AC regular while XP 32b idles 108-115W AC even with Fx and all basics running.

I'll need to check if there's any software to support reading system speeds in Linux now.