X performance woes

[Hal Burgiss]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
82946GZ/GL
> You may want to try with them on (I believe Xfce also has a checkbox
> somewhere).  It might be that you're triggering a bug that slows down
> only non-composited text rendering.

I'll try that.

> Other than that, I have no concrete ideas or suggestions.  Your options are:
>
>  * look for similar bug reports on launchpad.net (better make that
>    exact bug reports: intrepid + Intel 82946GZ/GL [8086:2972]) and add
>    a "me too"; alternatively file a bug report on
>    xserver-xorg-video-intel

I did search launchpad and found nothing similar. I'll try the other.

>
>  * try a Jaunty live CD and see if it got better or worse

I was going to wait for Jaunty release here soon, and try that. At the
moment its improved and usable, though not as responsive as it once
was. Thanks.

-- 
Hal