Comments on: hardware-happy, part 2

By: Tormod

Tormod — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:15:53 +0000

> repository with xorg 7.3 for gutsy

That would be the “hardy” repository

By: Sergey Udaltsov

Sergey Udaltsov — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:33:56 +0000

The problem is resolved! There was an old package xserver-xgl which spoiled the whole party!

Thanks a lot lads for the food for thought…

By: Sergey Udaltsov

Sergey Udaltsov — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:59:11 +0000

libgl1-mesa-dri was already installed

By: Sergey Udaltsov

Sergey Udaltsov — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:27:42 +0000

Thanks Marius, I tried that as well – it did not change a thing

By: Marius Gedminas

Marius Gedminas — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:06:17 +0000

One thing worth trying is XAA with the XAANoOffscreenPixmaps option. It made a huge difference in window scrolling speed when I first tried enabling the Composite extension a while ago.

Ubuntu carried a patch to X that enabled this option by default, but IIRC they dropped the patch recently (it caused some problems in other areas).

By: Sergey Udaltsov

Sergey Udaltsov — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:01:25 +0000

fraggle, AFAIK OS nv drivers suck, nouveau is very young (and not available in gutsy), so what would you use on powerpc?

By: fraggle

fraggle — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:55:39 +0000

That’s why I vowed years ago never to buy another ATI card

By: Sergey Udaltsov

Sergey Udaltsov — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:22:35 +0000

Stemp, Jan, thanks, I’ll check for that package!

By: Stemp

Stemp — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:18:57 +0000

I had the same sort of troubles with my ATI 9600.
The mesa dri were not installed. I had to install the package libgl1-mesa-dri manually.

By: Jan Schmidt

Jan Schmidt — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:14:15 +0000

X thinking DRI is available while userspace doesn’t usually means the wrong mesa lib is installed. On ubuntu, try making sure libgl1-mesa-dri is in place.