[CoLoCo] Some Advice

[Shawn Perry]

Two questions immediately come to mind.

1.  Did you install the proper nvidia-glx package?
2.  Have you considered upgrading your video card?

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ever since I started using Ubuntu I've loved the distribution.  I
> started with 7.0 and its been really great since then.  I am concerned
> with my bouts of slow performance from time to time.  Especially with
> anything that uses Flash, but I understand Flash on Linux sucks
> anyway.  No wonder Steve Jobs doesn't want it on the iPhone and iPad.
>
> My old custom machine has the following specs:
> PC Chips M848A mobo
> AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 1.2GHz
> 1GB PC2700 RAM
> 8x AGP Nvidia Geforce FX 5600 w/256MB DDR RAM
> 160GB Seagate ATA100 HDD (master)
> 80GB Maxtor ATA100 HDD (slave)
> NEC 24x DVD-/+W drive
> Sound Blaster Live 16-bit Internal
> Realtek 10/100 Ethernet
>
> Being visually handicapped I'm dependent on the Compiz desktop zoom
> and color inversion effects.  I don't necessarily need the spinning
> cube virtual desktop effect (though I really like it) or any other
> effects beyond wobbly windows.
>
> Would I be better off running Xubuntu?  Can I use the Compiz effects
> under Xfce that I need (desktop zoom, color inversion)?
> If so, how would I do that?
>
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