<quote who="Daniel Bush"> > > > ... nope, that didn't work either. My desktop is really sluggish too. > > > It's the end of the road for me and 9.04. > > > > Do you happen to have an Intel video chipset? > > Yeah, it's all intel. Integrated graphics and sound. I can just about > live with the sluggishness (I'm not sure if it is a lot different to 8.04 > or not to be honest) but I need to talk on skype. I'm prepared to try to > debug or troubleshoot if it will improve ubuntu but I'm a complete novice > plus I seem to be a bit of an isolated case.
The sluggishness is almost certainly related to the video driver performance regression in Ubuntu 9.04. There are some half-fixes which introduce new problems, but for most users I recommend going back to 8.10 for now. Easiest way around it, sadly. Your audio issue I'm not so sure about (Skype works okay here whether I have pulseaudio running or not, so, hrm). - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ http://www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/ "I haven't been this excited since the introduction of devfs." - Mark Rosenstand on upstart-devel list -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html