Finally resolved this issue, at least for my purposes. Folks on the thread were correct that there was a driver issue but I could not figure out how to get the intel drivers to load even though they were installed. The problem was that I had set GRUB to nomodeset to resolve an earlier issue (when I installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS there was a problem with the drivers resulting in a blank screen). This must have been preventing the correct drivers from loading. I tried to restore GRUB but it kept stalling on boot. I ended up replacing Ubuntu 12.04 with LUbuntu 12.10. Now everything is running smoothly. Videos on XBMC are running the CPU about 10% and everything looks a lot better (I had to set resolution to 720p previously).
However, this may not address the underlying driver issue with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1074779 Title: llvmpipe used after clean install instead of intel To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1074779/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
