Video driver problem on upgrade to Hardy

[NoOp]

On 04/27/2008 08:16 AM, fmfdias wrote:
> Hi to all.
> 
> I upgraded my system from version 7.10 to 8.04 in my Toshiba Tecra A7 with
> an ATI X1400 card.
> My first problem was that the system couldn't find information about my
> display devices (graphics card and monitor).
> The only way to get around this was to install the fglrx driver. 
> After installing the driver the resolution was correct but the interface was
> too slow. 
> I've uninstalled the fglrx driver and booted in recovery mode and runned the
> "xfix" to clean my xorg.conf file.
> After that I could use the system with the correct resolution without the
> fglrx driver but interface was still slow.
> I've tried the failsafe gnome and system worked like a charm, like described
> here. 
> Following the advice that another user posted here, I created a new user to
> see how the interface responded. The interface was slow like it was witg the
> normal user, but i found out that the system was enabling the xserver-xgl
> through a pop-up when starting with the new user. I followed the
> instructions to disable the xserver-xgl described there and voilá...
> everything works like a charm with no more slow interface.
> 
> So, to disable the xserver-xgl you need to create a file named disable in
> ~/.config/xserver-xgl/
> But the better solution is to remove the xserver-xgl package from your
> system, since its no longer need to display the fancy compiz effects using
> the fglrx drivers.
> To remove the xserver-xgl driver run this command:
> sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xgl
> 
> Hope that works for you.

Thanks for that added info!

And for Paolo; until you get this sorted out you can set your default
session to failsafe by doing the following:

System|Administration|Login Window|Default sesson|Failsafe GNOME

Hopefully that will keep you out of the slow mode until you/we/they
figure out the problem. I'd forgotten that I actually have this set for
my old 800Mhz/128MB Ram IBM A21M Thinkpad in Hardy in order to have a
viable mouse movement, respectible glxgears etc., and where I use no
compiz or any other fancy screens.

Gary