[ubuntu-za] Kubuntu Remix

[Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)]

Hi Derick

Derick Hewetson wrote:
> Funnily enough, I have noticed that the xorg.conf file still looks luike 
> the one in KDE4, with very little info in it and no reference to the 
> driver being used. The glxinfo tells me that Direct Rendering is enabled 
> and the glxgears are faster than usual. In Ubuntu, I used the openchrome 
> driver.
> 
> Any ideas?

In recent versions of xorg, they have improved the hardware detection 
drastically. As a result, they have removed any unnecessary entries out 
of the xorg config file. The desktop environment you use will not have 
an effect on your xorg config file, if you try Ubuntu 8.04 with Gnome, 
it will look the same. I know there's been a lot of changes in the 
openchrome drivers recently, Via has been releasing more and more code 
under a free license. Perhaps some of the problems are caused by the 
merges between all the various openchrome code that exists, maybe that 
also explains why your glxgears are faster than usual. As a temporary 
solution, you could perhaps try to get hold of an older openchrome 
driver and use that. Although, I think the best solution would be to get 
a decent pci/agp/pci-e card and just pop it in. An entry level display 
card that will give you much, much better performance and driver support 
will only cost around R150 or so. I think that's a worth-while 
investment for the performance you'll get and the hassle it will save you.

-Jonathan