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Subject: Re: Very slow xfce
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"Nishita Desai" <nishita@mri.ernet.in> writes:

> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Glyn Millington <glyn@millingtons.org> wrote:
>>>> Have a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log  - any interesting error messages?
>
>> "Nishita Desai" <nishita@mri.ernet.in> writes:
>>> Nothing I can spot.
>
> Okay, I didn't see this earlier.
>
> [drm] failed to load kernel module "i915"
> (EE) [drm] drmOpen failed.
> (EE) intel(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI.
>
> I have dri-7.0.3_1,2 installed
>
> xdriinfo gives
> # xdriinfo
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
>
> Error: Couldn't open display


Try adding this to xorg.conf


Section "DRI"
        Mode    0666
EndSection



hth







Glyn