Re: [Dorset] Sorry to say.

2009-12-17 Thread Sean Gibbins
Simon O'Riordan wrote: My curiosity was piqued by the Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook UNR edition, so I installed it this afternoon on my netbook. It is appalling. The visuals are expanded and detailed so as to give a clearer set of options on small screens, but they consume so much graphics and

Re: [Dorset] Sorry to say.

2009-12-17 Thread Dean Ramsden
Sean Gibbins wrote: Simon O'Riordan wrote: My curiosity was piqued by the Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook UNR edition, so I installed it this afternoon on my netbook. It is appalling. The visuals are expanded and detailed so as to give a clearer set of options on small screens, but they consume

Re: [Dorset] Sorry to say.

2009-12-17 Thread Simon O'Riordan
@mailman.lug.org.uk Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:05 PM Subject: Re: [Dorset] Sorry to say. Simon O'Riordan wrote: My curiosity was piqued by the Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook UNR edition, so I installed it this afternoon on my netbook. It is appalling. The visuals are expanded and detailed

Re: [Dorset] Sorry to say.

2009-12-17 Thread Sean Gibbins
Simon O'Riordan wrote: I'm running it on the HP 2133 Mini. That's the one with the Via chipset. Funny thing is, it works fine with the Desktop version; maybe it is optimised to be an 'un-netbook' netbook? I may be wrong here, but isn't UNR optimised for Intel Atom CPUs? It might explain

Re: [Dorset] Sorry to say.

2009-12-17 Thread John Cooper
On 17/12/09 22:15, Simon O'Riordan wrote: I'm running it on the HP 2133 Mini. That's the one with the Via chipset. Funny thing is, it works fine with the Desktop version; maybe it is optimised to be an 'un-netbook' netbook? Simono I had the same problem on my HP 2133 so I think it is the

Re: [Dorset] Sorry to say.

2009-12-17 Thread Sean Gibbins
John Cooper wrote: On 17/12/09 22:15, Simon O'Riordan wrote: I'm running it on the HP 2133 Mini. That's the one with the Via chipset. Funny thing is, it works fine with the Desktop version; maybe it is optimised to be an 'un-netbook' netbook? Simono I had the same problem on my HP

Re: [Dorset] Sorry to say.

2009-12-17 Thread Dominic Lonsdale
I have 9.10 (NBR=Net Book Re-mix , is that the same as UNR ?) on a eePC 900A and it works very well. What are you using ? On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 22:02 +, Simon O'Riordan wrote: My curiosity was piqued by the Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook UNR edition, so I installed it this afternoon on my netbook.

Re: [Dorset] Sorry to say.

2009-12-17 Thread Simon O'Riordan
As I said, I'm using the HP2133 Mini. Must be a Via issue. Simono On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 22:57 +, Dominic Lonsdale wrote: I have 9.10 (NBR=Net Book Re-mix , is that the same as UNR ?) on a eePC 900A and it works very well. What are you using ? On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 22:02 +, Simon

Re: [Dorset] Sorry to say.

2009-12-17 Thread Simon O'Riordan
User Group dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:22 PM Subject: Re: [Dorset] Sorry to say. Simon O'Riordan wrote: I'm running it on the HP 2133 Mini. That's the one with the Via chipset. Funny thing is, it works fine with the Desktop version; maybe it is optimised

Re: [Dorset] Sorry to say.

2009-12-17 Thread Robert Bronsdon
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:03:19 -, Simon O'Riordan voluntar...@btopenworld.com wrote: As I said, I'm using the HP2133 Mini. Must be a Via issue. Simono The Via chips are pretty poor performers, if you are getting it to do large amounts of graphics work without offloading things onto a GPU

Re: [Dorset] Sorry to say.

2009-12-17 Thread Simon O'Riordan
John, did you get the microphones to work? Simono - Original Message - From: John Cooper l...@discoverlinux.co.uk To: dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:23 PM Subject: Re: [Dorset] Sorry to say. On 17/12/09 22:15, Simon O'Riordan wrote: I'm running