Dell Latitude D430 - 12.04 upgrade to 12.10?

[Colin Law]

On 29 November 2012 20:42, Dave Woyciesjes <woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 11/29/2012 03:27 PM, Colin Law wrote:
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>> On 29 November 2012 18:30, Dave Woyciesjes <woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net>
>> wrote:
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>>> On 11/22/2012 03:39 AM, Colin Law wrote:
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>>>>
>>>> On 21 November 2012 20:29, Dave Woyciesjes <woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net>
>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>
>>>>> On 11/21/2012 01:25 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>        Has anyone tried upgrading their Dell Latitude D430 from 12.04
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> 12.10 yet?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           Well, I tried it. Performance went downhill. The trackpad
>>>>> acted
>>>>> funky, couldn't start in any GUI unles you chose the low graphics
>>>>> option.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What low graphics option is that?
>>>>
>>>> Colin
>>>>
>>>          Whatever the default generic is. Not good.
>>
>>
>> Sorry, I do not understand what you mean.  You say it will not start
>> in any GUI unless you choose the low graphics option, but it is not
>> clear to me how you are choosing the option.  Can you be a bit more
>> specific about exactly what you are doing?
>>
>> I am also not clear what you mean by "any GUI".  What GUIs are you trying?
>>
>> Colin
>>
>         Start up the machine, there is some issue with X & the graphics. SO
> you get choices, to reconfigure, or use low graphics for this one session.
> So that's what I had to choose. The reconfig option didn't work.

Ah, I understand, sorry, my mind was on the wrong track.  When running
12.04 will it run unity 3d or just 2d?  If you think it does run 3d
can you check that it really is, you should see compiz in the active
tasks and not metacity.  The reason to check is that on hardware that
does not support 3d it will silently drop back to 2d even though you
select 3d.

>
>         I find it hard to believe that you've never run in to this type of
> error since you've been using Ubuntu & Linux...
>
>         "Any GUI" means exactly what is says...

LXDE? KDE? Xfce?

Colin