[ltp] Jaunty on Thinkpad R51

Florian Reitmeir linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:40:14 +0200


Hi,

On Thu, 01 Oct 2009, Lucas Bxxx wrote:

>I'm using Ubuntu Jaunty on my Thinkpad R51. Everything worked out of
>the box, but the 2D graphics performance seems to be really slow.
>Resizing, scrolling and other graphics operations are really slow.
>Does anyone have the same problem? The originally installed Windows XP
>seemed much faster in this respect, so I guess it is a driver problem.
>I'm attaching my lsmod output so you can see what drivers are used on
>my system. To me it looks like all necessary drivers are loaded.
...
>Would be great if anyone could help me, or at least tell me that this
>is a common problem, then I will have to switch back to Windows XP
>because it is really hard to work like that.

please send us the output of:
   
lspci
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log

my theory is, that your notebook comes with an ATI/NVIDIA card, but the
drivers for the card are not installed.

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Florian Reitmeir