This is probably my last update to this bug report as I am now running etch instead of dapper on my laptop and have 100% of desired functionality working. I prefer to be running debian but had been running Ubuntu since it installed and worked more easily in the past, but with this regression and the release of etch debian-installer b3, the balance has shifted. I would still be willing to help test fixes as long as I can do so by booting from a live CD image and installing fixes from there.
On the vmware topic, having the video problem fixed helped a lot but not completely. A search on this determined that setting /sys/module/processor/parameters/max_cstate to 1 while running vmware was the rest of the problem. This is mainly for the benefit of someone who finds this bug report searching on google. I'm attaching my xorg.conf from my etch system. The only customizations I did on it from the xorg.conf generated by debian-installer were to comment out the synaptics stuff and to add dontzap. All the important display driver stuff is as detected. It seems like that the problem isn't with the xorg.conf though. -- regression: poor X11 performance on Dell Latitude D810 https://launchpad.net/bugs/56100 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
