jaunty slow on laptop

[Jayson Williams]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Jay Daniels<tux at myt60.net> wrote:
> 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
>
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