Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 9.04 Performance Issue

2009-04-30 Thread Robert Flatters
The problem i am having are two fold. the first is my graphic card, Nvidia G4 400, the res is crap it set at 600 x400 and every time i try and reboots a message is displayed stating that the graphics were incorrect and it will boot up in minimum settings. The second fold of my problem is to do

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 9.04 Performance Issue

2009-04-30 Thread Rob Beard
Robert Flatters wrote: The problem i am having are two fold. the first is my graphic card, Nvidia G4 400, the res is crap it set at 600 x400 and every time i try and reboots a message is displayed stating that the graphics were incorrect and it will boot up in minimum settings. The second

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bloomin' ATI and Linux....

2009-04-30 Thread Jon Reynolds
My Dell D600 Latitude laptop runs an ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] and I have always suffered with poor performance. Unfortunately I never get to the bottom of it. I really should try and get to a LUG meeting one day see if someone who knows what they are doing can

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bloomin' ATI and Linux....

2009-04-30 Thread Chris Rowson
My Dell D600 Latitude laptop runs an ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] and I have always suffered with poor performance. Unfortunately I never get to the bottom of it. I really should try and get to a LUG meeting one day see if someone who knows what they are doing can

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bloomin' ATI and Linux....

2009-04-30 Thread Ian Pascoe
Hi, two quick questions. Do you get the same degregation with any other distros you've tried? That is is it Ubuntu specific or distro wide? Secondly, have you tried Dell's own Ubuntu clone to see if that gives you the performance stability you're after? Dependant on your answers, it may then

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bloomin' ATI and Linux....

2009-04-30 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi, two quick questions. Do you get the same degregation with any other distros you've tried? That is is it Ubuntu specific or distro wide? Secondly, have you tried Dell's own Ubuntu clone to see if that gives you the performance stability you're after? Dependant on your answers, it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] to upgrade or not (Macbook 3,1 on Ibex)

2009-04-30 Thread William Anderson
Chris Weaver wrote: I have a Macbook 3.1 and I'm nearly about to press the upgrade button (I'm upgrading a test PC to see how it affects sound and Samba in particular). I have it dual booting with leopard so I'm perhaps in a better position if it goes wrong. I'll report back how it goes. I'm

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bloomin' ATI and Linux....

2009-04-30 Thread Alan Jenkins
Hey guys, I share your frustration with the ATI cards and Linux. I converted my friends machine over recently to running Ubuntu Jaunty believing that the ATI drivers had improved and would be nearly on par with the nVidia ones. And I learned the hard way that that was not the case... we tried to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 9.04 Performance Issue

2009-04-30 Thread Nigel Verity
Hi Folks Following on from my earlier query about poor OOO 3.0 performance under Ubuntu 9.04 Wubi, I decided to conduct an experiment. One of the great joys of Wubi is that it can be uninstalled in a few minutes without having a fundamental impact on the rest of your computer. I uninstalled