You really need the glyph cache in the X server to get decent text performance out of the 2.5 intel driver. The patches are pretty straightforward to backport, but it is my understanding that a 1.6 server will be uploaded to jaunty soon, so you might want to wait for that.
Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > I just "up"graded to more recent bits, namely xorg 1.5.3 and intel > driver 2.5.1 on GM965 rev 0c, and linux 2.6.28-rc8, all from Ubuntu 9.04 > development packages. I noticed that scrolling text performance in > xterm, gnome-terminal, and xfce4-terminal is incredibly bad. Slideshow > bad. You can see for yourself in this video: _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
