2013/5/15 Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knu...@gmail.com>: > 2013/5/15 Ric Moore <wayward4...@gmail.com>: >> On 05/12/2013 03:47 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: >> >>> I am not sure it's even possible to replace my graphics card; it's a >>> laptop. I have been planning to replace it with a desktop computer >>> since 2010, but so far I didn't, for some reason… Maybe I should >>> finally do it. >> >> >> Ah! For an "older" laptop you might be best off not going for a desktop with >> hotrod graphic effects at all. Install XFCE, or Lubuntu, > > I hate both of them, so no, I won't do that mistake again. And my > laptop is not THAT old… And it worked perfectly with Ubuntu 10.10 with > desktop effects on (those I think I need, I didn't try all of them at > once…). I even had a lot of swimming fish inside the cube without any > problems… (that's not one of the effects I usually use though, I was > just testing). But since Ubuntu 12.04 (I went directly from 10.10 to > 12.04 with a fresh install, only keeping my old home partition)I found > a lot of problems with Compiz, that I didn't experience previously. > >> which is what I did >> for an "older" (10 years old) Thinkpad. It works reasonably well. In the >> long run, a desktop that you can modify cheaply is best on a "limited >> budget", from my perspective. The laptop is good enough to run Thunderbird >> and Firefox (but not at once!) which suits me as I am rarely on the road >> anymore. :) Ric > > I don't run Firefox nor Thunderbird, so I don't know much about that. > Okay, I run Firefox maybe once a week or so, but still… > > > Johnny Rosenberg
I experimented a little and now I don't have any ”artifacts” anymore. Yet… There are other problems now, though, but nothing as serious as before, I think… I'll try this for a while and see what more I find… I edited the nVidia settings a bit. After opening the nVidia X Server Settings i checked X Screen 0 → Antialiasing Settings → ☒ Enable FXAA. So far no ”artifacts”, but sometimes when I do Ctrl+Alt, windows disappears and when they reappear they are empty (white). A click on Maximize/Reset takes care of that, though… I'll try the older driver (173) another day to see what happens. Johnny Rosenberg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
