help needed!

[POWERS, ZACK]

Hi Guoqiang Jia,

I apologize but I am having a very hard time understanding your letter
so I may have trouble accurately answering your question.

>I downloaded a lot of programs, such as Firefox 3 with its add-ons,
gcc, g++, g77, etc. My download work wasn't done yet, I received a
warning
>message, it read:
>" _cache_open(  ) failed, please make a report." 

>From this it sounds like you installed some applications with Synaptic
and it gave you an error after installing the packages. If this is the
case, it would be helpful if you told us on exactly which package did
this error occur.

>I found out that one core runs at 98% speed while the second one at
3%. Meanwhile, the memory and swap shows two flat lines, 51% with
memory and 1.3% with swap.

This is normal, no need to worry.

>For example, VLC log shows that all " lated pictures ", which means
that the movies are like high speed slide-shows, not moving pictures.

This implies you have no video acceleration.
If you open up a terminal and paste in this command " glxinfo | grep
rendering" it'll tell you if you have hardware accelerated rendering.

>Youtube has no web connections too. In the past week, I tried to find
solutions in the web sites, but it dosn't work.

I'm assuming you mean youtube doesn't work because flash isn't
installed. Try opening Synpatic and installing the package
flashplugin-nonfree.

Please feel free to message this list with any more questions you
have!

-Zack Powers

 -----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com on behalf of guoqiang jia
Sent: Thu 7/31/2008 1:14 PM
To: ubumtu-users
Subject: help needed!
 
First of all, I would like to thank you all for the wonderful job you
have done on UBUNTU.  Thank you very much indeed! UBUNTU is great!
I consider myself as a unskillful PC runner and have no spacial skills
to work in computer field, especially, on UBUNTU. This letter is not
about how to improve on UBUNTU, but is looking for the help from
UBUNTU because my laptop encountered a serious problem during the
installation. 
The following is the story. I work with windows XP pro for a few
years, it gave me a lot of rough time and unpleasant  experiences.
Since I don't know too much about computer and its programming, I
cannot use some OP system as LINUX, which needs a lot of skills to run
it.  Last week, my laptop crashed down again, I decided to search a
new OP system. I tried REDHAT, BLAG-600000, XFLT, and several versions
of LIVE CD, however; their preferences were very disappointed. By a
chance, I tried UBUNTU out. With a pleasant surprise,  I have found
what I am looking for. UBUNTU's high resolution display, fast speed,
and good network connection really amused me and I decided to switch
to UBUNTU from windows XP.
Before I installed UBUNTU 8.04, I checked the UBUNTU. ISO DVD disc and
my computer hardwares, they are all good. During the installation, I
double checked my laptop by using program MEM test +86 provided by
UBUNTU, the tests took about 3 hours and it made 3 passes without any
failures. After UBUNTU   being installed, I downloaded a lot of
programs, such as Firefox 3 with its add-ons, gcc, g++, g77, etc. My
download work wasn't done yet, I received a warning message, it read:
" _cache_open(  ) failed, please make a report." 
My computer is the first generation of dual core TOSHIBA A105 S4019, (
1.8 GHz with CPU, 1024 MB with memory, and 100GB with hardware),even
its cache isn't open, it still behaviors as normal one. When I used
system monitor to check its processing, I found out that one core runs
at 98% speed while the second one at 3%. Meanwhile, the memory and
swap shows two flat lines, 51% with memory and 1.3% with swap. These
dates convinced me that my laptop is really in the trouble. Since
these is no cache open within it, CPU has to be very busy to transfer
dates to the hardware by itself, that is why the warning message
showed up. The second fact is that all kind media player acts wired.
For example, VLC log shows that all " lated pictures ", which means
that the movies are like high speed slide-shows, not moving pictures.
Youtube has no web connections too. In the past week, I tried to find
solutions in the web sites, but it dosn't work.
I don't know weather  I make myself clear  to you or not,  but I
highly respect to your expertise and really need your help at this
moment.  I would like to thank you all in advance, any suggestion is
appreciated. 
Please contact me at shen_zhen_china at yahoo.com 
Sincerely yours,
UBUNTU new user, Guoqiang Jia 



      

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