Re: [Trisquel-users] Lagging graphics after upgrading to Trisquel 7

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I purged nouveau and restarted, and the results are MUCH better. I notice  
that there are a few "flourishes" missing, such as my main menu not being  
semi-transparent, and some "animated" effects, but I hardly notice them, and  
everything else is now MUCH more responsive. Since my monitor is hooked up to  
my Nvidia card, not the internal chip, and my display comes up, I'm assuming  
that it is doing the work, but I don't know exactly what driver is being  
used. This is what is listed in System Settings -> Details -> Graphics:  
"Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 128 bits)"

I'm a little disappointed that so much visual fluff was combined with a  
less-effective driver resulting in poor performance. I don't have a weak  
machine, and Trisquel 6 was so responsive and snappy. Trisquel 7, before  
removing nouveau, was very sluggish and muddy for the sake of looking  
"pretty".