Above solution didn't work for me. Since the upgrade to 14.04 ubuntu is basically unusable for me. When opening windows or moving them the CPU usage immediately rises to 100%. I am also not running inside a VM.
glxinfo als for me says: OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc. OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 256 bits) OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 10.1.0 OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to mesa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1268146 Title: Very high cpu usage for compiz in 14.04 (mesa incorrectly using llvmpipe) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/+bug/1268146/+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