Ubuntu 13.04 Suffers Performance

[Liam Proven]

On 25 June 2013 19:37, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> You might also want to address the cure for the problem I had on that
> elderly Thinkpad of mine. Reduce the resolution via an edited
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf file which you outlined, Liam.
>
> Now, youtube videos and DVD movies play just fine. Before it was a
> stuttering mess. Thanx Liam!

You are, as ever, entirely welcome.

What Ric refers to is a tip I found for older hardware.

Ubuntu doesn't let you pick the colour depth of your display any more.
It's all-24-bit all the time.

But using a generic xorg.conf file, you can drop the colour depth to
16-bit colour. This really helps older GPUs to cope. Mainly applies to
turn-of-the-century aged machines, though.

Details here:
http://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/20637.html


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