On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 09:47:40PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: > > After upgrading to the latest Ubuntu (9.04 aka Jaunty), my system has > been VERY sluggish. Videos didn't play back properly. Xorg was chewing > up a minimum of 30% CPU almost all the time, even if nothing was going on... > even if I disabled the compositing effects in KDE4's Kwin window manager. > > This seemed to help :) > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReinhardTartler/X/RevertingIntelDriverTo2.4 > > I'm still a bit annoyed at how sluggish this one year old laptop is > getting to be, and am starting to wonder if I should just switch to > command-line all the time, or maybe Xfce.
Bill, are you on the Dell Linux mailing list? Developers/Engineers from dell and canonical are on the list. They have helped fix a few problems for me. Very knowledgable. http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-desktops -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
