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Hi John<br>
<br>
Out of interest and this might not be your problem but when your system
does go slow again, open up a terminal and see what top says ? I found
hundreds of gtk-gnash processes, when killed fixed my problem (my
problem was that my system would suddenly just halt or go slowly).<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Angus<br>
<br>
john davis wrote:
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Wotcha List,<br>
<br>
Should have said "hello" again sooner. Plus I can't remember why I
stopped getting the mails etc (change of provider or something like
that).<br>
<br>
Ha! I might even try and make it to the moot this month (seeing as I
haven't manage to get to one for at least 18 months).<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Anyway, maybe someone can point me in the right direction........<br>
<br>
I've currently got Ubuntu 8.10 installed on the new PC, but using KDE4
for the desktop (and back to dual booting as I couldn't suss my webcam).<br>
<br>
The problem is a strange one (to me anyway). I run synaptic once a week
to make sure the system in up to date etc, and most things seem fine.
My graphics are nvidia based and I've got the latest 180.??? driver
installed and running, but with a couple of applications the graphics
seem to run really slowly (completely or in part). <br>
<br>
If I'm running GNUBG, all the screen redraws (after trying to move the
counters) are very slow, when I'm using firefox, it seems to take
forever to open the drop down menus (but everything else seems to work
- as far as I can tell from my vvv limited knowledge).<br>
<br>
Now I know, or at least believe, that it's not a graphics thing per se,
because I installed supertux and the game plays fine.<br>
<br>
Oh, and the other problem is that I can't open the CD/DVD drawer from
the case. I have to open a terminal and use the "eject" command.<br>
<br>
The system is less than 6 months old (a packard bell/PC world wonder
box). It seems fine as far as I can establish, resources-wise.<br>
<br>
So any guidance etc would be brilliant.<br>
<br>
regards<br>
<br>
John D.<br>
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