[Nottingham] Aspire One Performance

[Iain Moppett]

Hi,

Same issue for me.  Running JNR (9.04) on an Aspire One. 

... "The interface is slow and unresponsive; hovering over an icon will
take a good few seconds before it "highlights", and I'll have to wait a
while when opening applications." ...

 Exactly the same. I too tried downloading the iplayer files, but the
playback was jerky and even managed to unsynch the video and sound.
Streaming is rather better (wireless) though it does have to pause
itself occasionally.  I assumed that the graphics card wasn't up to the
job, but maybe it is a software issue.

I'll be intrigued to know if folk have heard of a solution.

BW

Iain

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[mailto:nottingham-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Rory Holland
Sent: 30 September 2009 16:27
To: Notts GNU/Linux Users Group
Subject: [Nottingham] Aspire One Performance

Seeing those posts on the iPlayer reminded me of my own Aspire One
performance issues.
I have an Acer Aspire one with 512mb RAM and an 8Gb SSD
I am running Ubuntu Netbook Remix (9.10 - is it beta yet?), but have
had this problem with most Linux distros

I have no compositing, I'm not even using metacity's compositing
features. It's worse with Compiz.

I think the problem may be with the Intel graphics, as I heard there
were major performance issues in Jaunty. I am, however, surprised they
weren't fixed in Karmic.

I'm not using any swap space, as the SSD is very slow, and I think may
be part of the problem.

Does anyone have any ideas how I can get a more responsive system? I'm
loathe to switch to something like IceWM or OpenBox, as I've grown
accustomed to the power of Gnome (metacity, specifically)

James

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