2009/5/19 Jeff Waugh <j...@perkypants.org> > <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). > > It does seize up just momentarily on menus and dropdowns as well as slow repaints when dragging windows creating an echo effect so I can confirm that graphics are definitely an issue. Thanks for the advice.
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