2009/5/5 Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com>: > 2009/5/3 Paul Broadhead <pjbr...@twinmoons.clara.co.uk>: >> The other thing to try to help speed things up is to disable DRI in >> your xorg.conf file. I have an X31 too and find scrolling in Jaunty >> unbearably slow for terminals and firefox. I disabled DRI as >> a work around for a mesa bug affecting mythtv and it helps the scroll >> problem too. >> >> To disables DRI, edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. In the "Device" >> section, add the following line: >> Option "DRI" "off" >> >> Then reboot or restart X. >> >> Hope that helps, >> Paul Broadhead > > Many thanks! That is absolutely brilliant and now X.11 is fast and > fluid again on my machine. Wonderful tip - I am extremely grateful. > > I did try, experimentally, switching back to Compiz with DRI off, but > it all went horribly wrong. Nothing appeared on a blank white screen > except corrupted icons for the alt-tab task switcher, and it seems the > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace shortcut to kill X no longer works.
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace has been turned off for Jaunty. Try Alt-SysRq-K instead, or install the dontzap package. http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ctrl-alt-backspace+jaunty&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
