problems with Maverick!

[Alan Pope]

On 22 October 2010 01:19, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> This thread I know is dealing with Maverick (10.10) but I am still using
> 10.04.1 and gnash is also installed in Lucid (and I didn't install it) -
> but it is not running, it doesn't show up in the System Monitor.
>
> A couple of question then come to mind: why is gnash, being at only the
> alpha stage, automatically installed,

Gnash is not installed by default on any release of Ubuntu. It may
have been installed when you clicked through the 'install flash'
dialog in firefox, but we don't ship it on the CD.

> and why is it affecting Maverick but not Lucid?
>

Different versions of Gnash, firefox, audio subsystem, video driver,
kernel etc exist in 10.04 and 10.10.
Any one (or a combination) of those could cause slowdown.

Cheers,
Al.