I tried the oibaf ppa drivers as this was mentioned as part of one of the many old workarounds
graham@OptiPlex-GX620:~$ sudo lshw -C video -C cpu *-cpu product: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz vendor: Intel Corp. physical id: 0 bus info: cpu@0 version: 15.4.1 serial: 0000-0F41-0000-0000-0000-0000 size: 2800MHz width: 64 bits capabilities: boot fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx x86-64 constant_tsc pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl cid cx16 xtpr configuration: id=1 *-logicalcpu:0 description: Logical CPU physical id: 1.1 width: 64 bits capabilities: logical *-logicalcpu:1 description: Logical CPU physical id: 1.2 width: 64 bits capabilities: logical *-display:0 description: VGA compatible controller product: 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0 version: 02 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=i915 latency=0 resources: irq:16 memory:feb00000-feb7ffff ioport:e898(size=8) memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:feac0000-feafffff *-display:1 UNCLAIMED description: Display controller product: 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2.1 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1 version: 02 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list configuration: latency=0 resources: memory:feb80000-febfffff graham@OptiPlex-GX620:~$ /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on i915 (chipset: 945G) OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-e97b207 2015-12-17 wily-oibaf-ppa) Not software rendered: yes Not blacklisted: yes GLX fbconfig: yes GLX texture from pixmap: yes GL npot or rect textures: yes GL vertex program: yes GL fragment program: yes GL vertex buffer object: yes GL framebuffer object: yes GL version is 1.4+: yes Unity 3D supported: yes -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of compiz packagers, which is subscribed to compiz in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1293384 Title: Compiz CPU usage dramatically increased in Ubuntu 14.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/compiz/+bug/1293384/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~compiz Post to : compiz@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~compiz More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp