Overclocking ATI Radeon cards in Linux
First let me start by saying that overclocking is very risky, you can seriously damage your system, so please use this guide with care.
That said lets start!
Compiz and Beryl tend to work a bit slow on old video cards, so we overclock!
I have an ATI Radeon 9550 card made by Gigabyte and Ubuntu Feisty.
lspci -v output:
fglrxinfo output:
Overclocking is made by Radeon overclock (rovclock) made by Hasw (hasw@hasw.net), you can get the source here and compile it manually (make;make install).
In Ubuntu you can do:
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