Dell Latitude D430 - 12.04 upgrade to 12.10?

[Colin Law]

On 29 November 2012 22:00, Dave Woyciesjes <woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 11/29/2012 04:18 PM, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 29 November 2012 20:42, Dave Woyciesjes <woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11/29/2012 03:27 PM, Colin Law wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 29 November 2012 18:30, Dave Woyciesjes <woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11/22/2012 03:39 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 21 November 2012 20:29, Dave Woyciesjes <woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 11/21/2012 01:25 PM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Has anyone tried upgrading their Dell Latitude D430 from
>>>>>>>> 12.04
>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>> 12.10 yet?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>            Well, I tried it. Performance went downhill. The trackpad
>>>>>>> acted
>>>>>>> funky, couldn't start in any GUI unles you chose the low graphics
>>>>>>> option.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What low graphics option is that?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Colin
>>>>>>
>>>>>           Whatever the default generic is. Not good.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sorry, I do not understand what you mean.  You say it will not start
>>>> in any GUI unless you choose the low graphics option, but it is not
>>>> clear to me how you are choosing the option.  Can you be a bit more
>>>> specific about exactly what you are doing?
>>>>
>>>> I am also not clear what you mean by "any GUI".  What GUIs are you
>>>> trying?
>>>>
>>>> Colin
>>>>
>>>          Start up the machine, there is some issue with X & the graphics.
>>> SO
>>> you get choices, to reconfigure, or use low graphics for this one
>>> session.
>>> So that's what I had to choose. The reconfig option didn't work.
>>
>>
>> Ah, I understand, sorry, my mind was on the wrong track.  When running
>> 12.04 will it run unity 3d or just 2d?  If you think it does run 3d
>> can you check that it really is, you should see compiz in the active
>> tasks and not metacity.  The reason to check is that on hardware that
>> does not support 3d it will silently drop back to 2d even though you
>> select 3d.

You did not answer this question.  It is important because hardware
that will not run unity3d on 12.04 will not run 12.10 unity
satisfactorily (or Gnome Shell I think, but not sure).

Colin

>>
>>>
>>>          I find it hard to believe that you've never run in to this type
>>> of
>>> error since you've been using Ubuntu & Linux...
>>>
>>>          "Any GUI" means exactly what is says...
>>
>>
>> LXDE? KDE? Xfce?
>>
>> Colin
>>
>
>         Runs Gnome3/Shell just a treat. Unity I believe works fine, but I
> don't like it...
>
>
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