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I recently updated from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS and for the first time it worked!



However, whenever I move my mouse over an application icon on the unity shell, the animation takes forever to show me what the name of the application is ( A.k.a the tooltip ).
The same happens with menus and sub-menus.



Other than that, it is overall in general, slow. I just want to know if there are any tips to fix this or make my system faster.



This is what it says when I type in glxinfo | grep renderer:



GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, GLX_MESA_query_renderer, 
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 128 bits)


Output of lspci | grep VGA:



00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)

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Your system is not currently using hardware acceleration for graphics - to enable this, you will need to try to update the drivers. I know of four options, only one of which has ever worked well for me.



Before you use any of these options, you may also want to run sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree - this will load the firmware for which there is no source code.



Option 1 (the only one that worked for me) Use the graphics drivers from oibaf:



sudo add-apt-repositoryppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade


More information can be found at launchpad



Option 2 - use the xorg-edgers. These can be found on launchpad, but they are not always entirely stable and may break your system



Option 3 - download and compile the official slick new and totally advanced intel drivers from 01.org. Before you do this, read about how to uninstall them!



Option 4 - in the software sources (open the dash and type software sources), the rightmost tab 'Additional Drivers' may have drivers that can work in your system. Again, you should review how to remove them, before you install them.


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