On 07/02/13 12:02, Simon Greenwood wrote:
On 7 February 2013 11:59, Gareth France <gareth.fra...@gmail.com
<mailto:gareth.fra...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On 07/02/13 11:57, Simon Greenwood wrote:
On 7 February 2013 11:52, Gareth France <gareth.fra...@gmail.com
<mailto:gareth.fra...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On 07/02/13 11:11, Simon Greenwood wrote:
On 7 February 2013 10:43, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com
<mailto:clan...@googlemail.com>> wrote:
On 7 February 2013 10:31, Simon Greenwood
<sfgreenw...@gmail.com <mailto:sfgreenw...@gmail.com>>
wrote:
> ..
> On 7 February 2013 10:17, Gareth France
<gareth.fra...@gmail.com
<mailto:gareth.fra...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> ..
>> Thanks Alan. I think the thing that gets to me is
that aside from whatever
>> I may choose to run on it I expect a machine I paid
£300 for to run properly
>> to begin with. None of these solutions address the
problem. They more sort
>> of side step it. I doubt I'm going to find the
problem, I'll just have to
>> avoid Packard Bell next time I upgrade.
>>
>
> In all honesty, that is the place to start. Packard
Bell machines are built
> to a price, and it's fairly likely that they need
OS-based accelerators to
> work properly. I'm not familiar with that processor
but there are probably
> features that aren't supported by Linux and require
Windows-native software,
> and the GPU will be integrated and underpowered. I've
had similar problems
> in the past with more expensive machines and have
since learned my lesson.
The guy is not talking about just not getting the
ultimate out of the
machine, he has problems such as "tonight it ground to a
halt, the
hard drive access light went mad and the mouse stopped
moving. Then it
moved in jerks and a variety of windows greyed out and
came back again
over and over." That is a software problem of some
sort. Something
is gobbling up his processor or/and his RAM.
Yes, I agree, and as previously described, I have seen
exactly this problem, and on what would seem to be a more
powerful machine. In the first instance, disable Flash and
see if that stops or reduces the CPU load. In my experience
it will. However, it doesn't solve the problem, and this is
where I came to a halt with trying to analyse it. It is
likely to be a combination of the Flash plugin, Compiz and
the physical hardware, possibly one that hasn't been
identified before, so to get some progress, it needs to be
documented.
However, I believe my point still stands: for all the work
done to maximise compatibility, there are always going to be
machines that don't play for less obvious reasons,
especially at the low cost end of the market, and the rule
still should be that if you want to use a Linux desktop of
any kind do a little bit of homework. There is the official
compatibility wiki but if you get the model number of any
laptop and put it into Google, someone will have attempted
to run Linux on it and reported on it.
s/
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"TBA are particularly glib"
Just to update everyone flash blocker didn't manage 5 minutes
before both Firefox and system monitor greyed out simply
because I tried to close the monitor. As I'm typing this
email Thunderbird keeps greying out and the text appears on
the screen up to 45 seconds after I typed it. (So apologies
for any spelling mistakes.) Rhythmbox is playing, well
stuttering. That seems to be the biggest problem, I have
noticed flash can be a drain but any media playing and it
greatly increases the chance that the system will halt.
Try starting Firefox and Thunderbird in safe mode. It's Help >
Restart with addons disabled in both, and see how if that
improves things.
s/
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"TBA are particularly glib"
I've switched to chromium to see what difference that makes. I'll
try restarting thunderbird and see what happens
Chrome does perform a lot better, and I've actually switched to Opera
as an email client as recent versions of Thunderbird have just plain
struggled especially when starting up.
s/
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"TBA are particularly glib"
I don't like switching too often to be honest. I've only just got things
how I want them! Can opera receive RSS feeds? I have two linked to my
supplier that tell me when products go in and out of stock, From my
perspective I get an email every time they send out an entry on the feeds.
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