Friday, June 5, 2009

X11 display reconfiguration for Ubuntu on Dell T300

I just upgraded Ubuntu on our Dell T300 machine to 9.04. Fancy... but we got a surprisingly slow response in gnome-terminal.

I googled, and found out that Ubuntu 9.04 is not working very well with the Intel video chipset of the machine, as discussed here.

The solution is quite simple (though the instructions kept me trying for a while). Sudo to root, edit the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf, add following line to Device section:

Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"

Then logout, and re-login, solved!

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