jaunty slow on laptop

[Florian Diesch]

Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> writes:

> Just installed Jaunty on my Dell Latitude (1.8 GB Pentium, 1 GB RAM) and 
> can't believe how slow it is. 3-5 second delay between clicking to 
> expand xterm and when it expands, 2 second delay when using the up or 
> down arrows to scroll, Mutt so slow responding to commands that at times 
> I think it's frozen and have to bail out, even Alpine has a noticeable 
> hesitation. Scrolling with the mouse wheel or the scroll bar is jerky 
> and skips with the previously mentioned delay. Has anyone else 
> experienced this or is the Holtzman Luck rearing it's head again?

What graphic card do you have? Jaunty has problems with some Intel
graphic cards that can result in poor performance. Maybe try an older
version of Ubuntu.



   Florian
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