For some reason, my Edgy X.org install did not auto-detect the S3 Savage card on the laptop, so I was running with the VESA driver. Have changed to the śavage' driver and things now work great. Feel a bit foolish now :-) Please close.
-- X.org video performance severely degraded from Dapper https://launchpad.net/bugs/56967 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
