Hello Everybody

[Waleed Hamra]

On 08/29/2011 10:42 AM, Christer Wickman wrote:
> Hello Everybody.
> 
> I have a question which I hope some can help me with. When I installed
> my KUbuntu it was KUbuntu 9.10 which was upgrade to KUbuntu 10.04 LTS
> and then to KUbuntu 10.10 and after that to KUbuntu 11.04. I then
> upgrade to KDE 4.7. But after that I only comes to log in screen after
> that the screen becomes black. In the end I was force to re-install
> KUbuntu 11.04 which I did. But now when KUbuntu 11.10 will be released
> soon do I dare to update since I believe that my graphic-card might not
> be able to work with KDE 4.7. My graphic-card is a Intel GMA 3100 should
> I buy a new graphic-card. The GMA 3100 is built in on my motherboard.
> The computer in it self is great. This is what it has a motherboard from
> ASUS with a 775 sockel and a Intel Core2Duo 2.20GHz a Intel GMA 3100
> graphic and a harddrive from Western Digital 500Gb. Since this happen
> every time I started the computer I re-installed KUbuntu 11.04 and the
> computer works great now. But I am a bit afraid of upgrading it to
> KUbuntu 11.10 since it will probably have KDE 4.7 and it was after I
> upgrade from KDE 4.6.4 to KDE 4.7 the screen only became black after I
> log in. Could this because of the graphic-card having problem with KDE
> 4.7? Since Intel GMA 3100 is not the best graphic-card
> 
> Yours
> Christer
> 

my advice would be to buy a graphic card, just any cheap nvidia or ATI
card, it would be far better than the built-in Intel ones.
but on another note, if you're going to keep this current one, i suggest
you try disabling desktop effects. very weird effects happen when
they're enabled on Intel graphics, this includes screen corruption,
occasional hanging of the graphical system, with a flood of dmesg errors
about the VGA not responding, very slow response times in
minimize/restore operations when any slightly intensive program is running.
i don't have an Intel chipset myself, but i have a kubuntu 11.04
installation with KDE 4.7 on a portable hard drive that i take around
with me. it had its share of getting plugged into computers with intel
graphic cards. as long as desktop effects remain disabled, i dont have
any problem with it.

-- 
Waleed K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems

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