Poor Intel GMA 900 performance in 2D

Bug #145789 reported by Mihai Mafteianu
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Bug Description

Text scrolling in 2D is very slow after upgrading to 7.10 (page up, page down in Firefox, for example).

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Mihai Mafteianu (mihai-gr) wrote :

Also glxgears crashed x.org

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sumsar (rasmus-baath) wrote :

Had the same problem with my intel 915. Found the soulution here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3416144&postcount=15

I just uninstalled the xserver-xgl package and then everything worked just fine. According to the post above this is not a bug, just a performance issue... But for the intel cards that xserver-xgl isn't working for it should be disabled by default...

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Adam Niedling (krychek) wrote :

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