XGL disabling?

[Samuel Thurston, III]

Long ago I made a request but failed to follow up on it:

On Oct 26, 2007 1:09 PM, David Vincent <dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca> wrote:
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> Samuel Thurston, III wrote:
> > I've got a Dell inspiron 700m with intel i855 graphics.  Before gutsy,
> > beryl and XGL ran fine, my only problem was with 3d games, the effect
> > was glitchy and so i would disable XGL for this purpose.
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> > However now, compiz only does transparent windows and shading. cube
> > doesn't work.  beryl has unresolved dependencies.  and the worst part:

I can pleasantly report that the cube works fine now and I removed all
traces of Beryl so no more issue there.

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> > XGL is always hogging 10% of my system resources, even when i have
> > effects turned off.  3D games run unplayably slow and even just
> > regular browser window scrolling and video playback are jerky and
> > freeze up from time to time.  3d screensavers cause a weird "double
> > vision" effect with gnome windows after i unlock the workstation.

This is where the bad news comes.  XGL now takes consistently 17% to
20% of memory (1.25GB) with all desktop effects disabled. Scrolling
and video are still very iffy.  I switched off all my 3D screensavers
so I can't report a change there.

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> > How can I get rid of XGL on gutsy? This is so far the worst addition
> > to the Ubuntu desktop I have seen... it has no practical purpose and
> > has effectively crippled my workstation.
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> $ touch ~/.config/xserver-xgl/disable
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Running this command yields a "No such file or directory", so I don't
know what to do... simply killing the Xgl process just kills my xorg
and when it restarts Xgl has returned with it.

"System | Preferences | Appearance" tab Visual Effects is set to
"none" and everything in the "System | Preferences | Advanced Desktop
Effects Settings" dialog is unchecked.

Thanks in advance for any help