jaunty slow on laptop

[Jay Daniels]

On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 10:20 +0200, Florian Diesch wrote:
> Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> writes:
> 
> > Just installed Jaunty on my Dell Latitude (1.8 GB Pentium, 1 GB RAM) and 
> > can't believe how slow it is. 3-5 second delay between clicking to 
> > expand xterm and when it expands, 2 second delay when using the up or 
> > down arrows to scroll, Mutt so slow responding to commands that at times 
> > I think it's frozen and have to bail out, even Alpine has a noticeable 
> > hesitation. Scrolling with the mouse wheel or the scroll bar is jerky 
> > and skips with the previously mentioned delay. Has anyone else 
> > experienced this or is the Holtzman Luck rearing it's head again?
> 
> What graphic card do you have? Jaunty has problems with some Intel
> graphic cards that can result in poor performance. Maybe try an older
> version of Ubuntu.
> 
> 
> 
>    Florian
> -- 
> <http://www.florian-diesch.de/>
> 

I agree, Hardy 8.04-3 LTS works good on my notebook with desktop effects
and open source driver for ati x1400.  But I got 2 gigs ram here.


jay