Xorg ati driver on Thinkpad T43

[Daniel Stone]

On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 22:45 -0700, Chris Wilson wrote:
> it's seems that sometime between Sep. 8th and Sep 17th. the default
> xorg driver fro my Thinkpad T43 changed from vesa to ati.
> 
> The performance of the ATI driver is really bad. when scrolling in
> firefox or moving a window the vertical scan line is very noticable.
> It takes a full second for the curtain rising/falling effect to get
> from bottom to top.
> 
> I've now changed the driver to vesa and everything seems as before
> (not great but usable).
> 
> Any reason for this?

Yeah, quite a few machines seem to hang really badly when you attempt
acceleration.  Wait for the next revision of Xorg, or use Option
"FullAccel".