Heyya Joe, On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Joseph Zitt <[email protected]> wrote: > First, my apologies for posting outside the key topics of politics or > dentistry.
Dude, we all hate politics. No worries. > > I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition with the Unity interface on an Asus > Eee 1001P. [0] Oh no. I see where this is going... > > The system has some quirks, such as starting with the keyboard NumLocked > (which led me to think that i couldn't log in at all until I realized it) > and not supporting an external monitor well. :( > > It also sometime grinds effectively to a halt. I hear it continuously > accessing the hard drive, but can't do anything. This sometimes happens when > I revive it by pressing a key after it's been idle for several hours, but > also see it in some other less well-defined circumstances. (One thing I > found was that opening the Files and Folders screen, so I don't use that > anymore, sticking with Gnome Commander.) When this happens, all I can do is > forcibly power down then power it back up. This is more Unity then anything else. Since Mutter does not support hardware acceleration, it renders via software. BOO! I was trying to backport netbook-launcher to no avail. :( > > I seem to remember there being scripts, and possibly even software packages, > that straightened this stuff out, but I'm not seeing them anymore. > > BTW, I hated the Unity interface when I first experienced it, but have grown > to like it. With the help of Gnome Do, a bunch of Firefox plugins, Dropbox, > and a few other tools, this is a surprisingly useful little PC. > > So... does anyone have any pointers on getting 10.10 to work better on this > Eee? Switch to 10.04. I know it sounds backwards, but 10.10's unity iterface is really really REALLY buggy. I've switched off of UNE because of it :( > > [0] http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=5AH8HAdGuhiQIXgg > -- > Joseph Zitt ::http://www.josephzitt.com > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > Let us know how it goes!!! -Paul -- All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors. #define sizeof(x) rand() :wq _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
