[ubuntu-za] Intel graphics and Jaunty

[Trevor Hughes]

My aging gutsy (7.10) installation is falling apart and I do not really want
to spend time and energy fixing it when I already have the brand spanking
new Jaunty (9.04) installed in dual boot configuration.

My Hp550 has an intel graphics card and that is my problem - very slow
graphics. I did a bit of googling and found this is a known problem for
some.

I checked the xorg.0.log file and found the intel driver is being loaded but
there was a message that DRI was not loaded. and I think this is the problem
no? So I am not even sure I am having the driver problem or something else
is causing the failure.

The new monitor set up is quite nice and quickly allowed me to configure my
lapto screen and external LCD screen as one large desktop. I don't care too
much for the fancy wizzy compiz effects and I have alwasy thought they do
not work on dual screen setups.

What I am worried about is the dismal screen redraw rates. SO I am turning
my energy to get this sorted and can my gutsy install (and free up all that
hard drive space!)

I saw 2 possible fixes - one involved grabbing a kernel from debian sid - do
not really want t go down that route and the other was getting the old intel
driver (2.4 I think) from Jaunty repos.

Has anyone had this problem and how did they over come it. Also if you need
more details such as the exact Intel chip (i think it is 945 - but not sure
and not at my laptop now)  - or any output from log files or dmesg or
whatever that would help let me know

Thanks

trev
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