2009/5/6 Neil Greenwood <neil.greenwood....@gmail.com>: > 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.
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