Dell Latitude D430 - 12.04 upgrade to 12.10?

[Dave Woyciesjes]

On 11/29/2012 04:18 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 29 November 2012 20:42, Dave Woyciesjes <woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> On 11/29/2012 03:27 PM, Colin Law wrote:
>>>
>>> On 29 November 2012 18:30, Dave Woyciesjes <woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 11/22/2012 03:39 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 21 November 2012 20:29, Dave Woyciesjes <woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 11/21/2012 01:25 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>         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
>

	Runs Gnome3/Shell just a treat. Unity I believe works fine, but I don't 
like it...

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