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[ale] Ubuntu forum
- Subject: [ale] Ubuntu forum
- From: yahoo at jimpop.com (Jim Popovitch)
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 11:44:27 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
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On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Chris Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> On my 8.04 desktop I've switched from Evolution to Thuderbird thinking
> that the performance issues were in Evo. Not the case. As I
> investigate more I see Xorg spending many CPU cycles doing something.
> I'm just not sure what. I've turned off all the 3D enhancements like
> Compbiz and I see no major performance improvement.
I've always had performance problems with the distro X drivers. In my
case the proprietary ATI drivers are 300% better than the Ubuntu
distro drivers. YMMV.
-Jim P.