This one time, at band camp, Heracles wrote: > I have a small but annoying problem. I installed Ubuntu 7.04 on my > daughter's machine (Celeron 1.7 G, 768Mb DDR333, 256Mb nVidia 6200 > Compaq S720 screen) and all works OK except when she is on the net with > Firefox it stalls from time to time. It never did this to her under XP > so I don't see why it should do it under Linux. The only difference I > can see is that X chose 1280x1024 as the native resolution.
I've had weird pauses and lockups using the Skype Linux client (which I sadly have to use to talk to work people). > Note, she has two browser windows and amsn running. This is the same for > both systems. What client for MSN? I presume there's no "official" client for Linux. Also, pauses like this can sometimes indicate a cooling problem. Check that the CPU fan is working. -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ "I went to bed last night and my moral code got jammed, I woke up this morning with a frapaccino in my hand." - Nick Cave's day gets off to a bad start in Abbatoir Blues -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
