On 3 December 2011 17:18, Barry Titterton < barry.titter...@mail.adsl4less.com> wrote:
> > The recent, very extensive, discussion for and against Unity/11.10 has > prompted me to give my experience. > > Four weeks ago I upgraded my spare laptop to 11.10 and the experience > has been mixed. > > The machine is an elderly Toshiba Satellite Pro A120 with 1 Gig Ram. It > had been running 10.04 without problems for several months. the initial > upgrade did not go smoothly as I had the issue, previously reported on > this list, where it kept asking me to put an 11.10 CD in the drive to > enable the upgrade to continue. After the upgrade the machine crashed > back to a text only display three times in two days. The line on the > screen full of text that seemed most interesting was: > "Bug: unable to handle kernel paging request at 42de0014". > > I have had this a lot - I have reported a bug. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/886706 Why not add yourself to it. Its not down to your Tosh as such as my computer is a HP Pavilion desktop with 2GB ram. More likely to be a Unity 3D problem. I had crashes in 11.04 but they have become more frequent in 11.10. > I assumed that the issues with the upgrade had caused a problem so did a > full install. The machine crashed again two days later. Also Firefox was > crashing to the desktop several times a day. I have now downgraded to > Unity 2D and everything is stable. > > My non-techie test subject (the wife) has two things that she dislikes > about Unity: > 1. The small vertical scroll device is fiddly, especially when using a > touch pad. > 2. The launcher is too quick to jump out when you go to select things in > the top left hand corner of an application, for example the 'Back Arrow' > on Firefox. This, again, is a particular problem when using a touch pad > as it is generally less accurate and over shoots are more likely. There > needs to be a buffer zone between the left hand edge of a 'full screen' > application window and the left hand edge of the display screen. > > Barry T > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > >
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