Autarchy of the Private Cave

I assume you already have configured and working desktop environment, but want to improve performance.

First of all, sudo aptitude install mesa-utils. Then run in a Terminal/Konsole glxgears, and wait for ~15 seconds; if your FPS is ~400 or less, then you do have sluggish video performance (usually manifesting itself as slow scrolling in Firefox/Iceweasel, slow window switching/minimziing/maximizing etc).

After reading through several forums and bug reports and blog posts, I’ve ended with the following modifications to my /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
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Everybody already knows that, but this visualization is good:

The Crisis of Credit Visualized by Jonathan Jarvis.

Found via Jason Calacanis weblog.

Please skip this post if you’re feeling workaholic: there is absolutely nothing useful inside.

See full post for videos.
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