Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

2008-04-06 Thread Kris Douglas
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Dave Morley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 17:21 +0100, Jmaes Edward Grabham wrote: > > Matthew Wild wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Chris Rowson > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> Hi there, > > >> > > >> My littl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

2008-04-06 Thread James Grabham
Oh yeah, found this on ubuntuforums "I fixed this problem by removing ia32-libs, flashplugin-nonfree and nspluginwrapper, then installing ia32-libs_2.1ubuntu3_amd64.deb from http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...e/i/ia32-libs/ (It is an older version than what installs in apt-get), then installi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

2008-04-06 Thread Dave Morley
On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 17:21 +0100, Jmaes Edward Grabham wrote: > Matthew Wild wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Chris Rowson > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Hi there, > >> > >> My little boy likes playing various flash based games from children's > >> websites. I find that in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

2008-04-06 Thread Jmaes Edward Grabham
Matthew Wild wrote: > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Chris Rowson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> My little boy likes playing various flash based games from children's >> websites. I find that in Ubuntu, many of these run pretty badly and as >> this is all he uses my old la

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

2008-04-06 Thread Chris Rowson
> > Hi there, > > > > My little boy likes playing various flash based games from children's > > websites. I find that in Ubuntu, many of these run pretty badly and as > > this is all he uses my old laptop for, I decided to put Windows XP > > back onto it to see the if it would make any di

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

2008-04-06 Thread Matthew Wild
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Chris Rowson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > My little boy likes playing various flash based games from children's > websites. I find that in Ubuntu, many of these run pretty badly and as > this is all he uses my old laptop for, I decided to put Windows

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

2008-04-06 Thread Chris Rowson
> Chris Rowson wrote: > | I wondered if anyone else has tried this out or have any reasons why > | it would be so? > > > The only question which springs to my mind is whether you're using the > Mesa software graphics drivers or the binary drivers for your graphics card? > > I think that this

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

2008-04-05 Thread Stephen O'Neill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Rowson wrote: | I wondered if anyone else has tried this out or have any reasons why | it would be so? The only question which springs to my mind is whether you're using the Mesa software graphics drivers or the binary drivers for your graphics

[ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

2008-04-05 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi there, My little boy likes playing various flash based games from children's websites. I find that in Ubuntu, many of these run pretty badly and as this is all he uses my old laptop for, I decided to put Windows XP back onto it to see the if it would make any difference for him. I've just inst