[ale] Ubuntu forum

[Jim Popovitch]

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.