[ubuntu-za] Niggling Post 9.10 upgrade issues

Sun Nov 1 22:52:19 GMT 2009

Hi All,

I'm really rather desperately still looking for a solution to this
problem, particularly the bit where I can't read the menus in
OpenOffice, which means that I cannot finish some very urgent work.

If this is a video driver issue (this may also explain the extreme drop
in performance), does anyone have any suggestions? However, it seems
really strange that all other display content works (even if slowly
sometimes) except OpenOffice menus and some notification boxes. Could
this problem involve Java? I currently have Java Runtime Environment 6
loaded.

I gave up on Windows because it was beginning to cost me more time
fixing it than just actually being able to get work done. I was
overjoyed to discover Ubuntu - but now I'm finding myself back in the
same situation with Ubuntu that I had with Windows. Please help.

Robin

-----Original Message-----
From: Johan Mynhardt <johanmynhardt at gmail.com>
To: robin at ncedatrust.org.za, Ubuntu South African Local Community
<ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Niggling Post 9.10 upgrade issues
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 20:35:38 +0200

2009/11/1 Robin Bownes <robin at ncedatrust.org.za>:
> I just tried enabling visual effects. 9.10 said it was looking for suitable
> display drivers - then after a while told me it was unable to enable visual
> effects.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robin Bownes <robin at ncedatrust.org.za>
> Reply-to: robin at ncedatrust.org.za, Ubuntu South African Local Community
> <ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
> To: Ubuntu South African Local Community <ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Niggling Post 9.10 upgrade issues
> Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:37:50 +0200
>
> Thanks Stefano,
>
> I upgraded online, so don't have the 9.10 live CD. (I only have the 8.10 CD)
> While I accept the explanation for some added slowness, and I do need to
> upgrade memory, it was still a very drastic slow-down - from really flying
> along, to major pauses while I wait for my mouse cursor to move, text to
> appear on the screen, changing between open apps, etc.
>
> Yes, they are notifications, but how do I get them to notify in a format
> that is readable by humans? What is compiz, and how do I check to see
> whether its installed, and install it if not?
>
> While a graphics driver issue may explain a lot, surely the new upgrade will
> have read what was working so wonderfully before and either used it, or
> installed an upgraded similar?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefano Rivera <ubuntu-za at rivera.za.net>
> Reply-to: Ubuntu South African Local Community <ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
> To: ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Niggling Post 9.10 upgrade issues
> Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:18:39 +0200
>
> Hi Robin (2009.10.31_23:58:08_+0200)
>>       * My notebook (Compaq nx9000) runs a lot more slowly than it did
>>         on 9.04. It feels like 9.10 uses a lot more resources, or
>>         doesn't use them as efficiently or something. Any ideas? (Not
>>         wildly happy with this. I was overjoyed when I recently ditched
>>         Windows and discovered that Ubuntu 8.10 & then 9.04 allowed my
>>         somewhat older notebook to run so much better- somewhat
>>         disappointed now.)
>
> Unfortunatly, almost all software tends to become bigger, slower, and
> heavier
> over time, as more features are added and we demand more from it. While
> Ubuntu
> will run comfortably on older hardware than contemporary versions of
> Windows,
> it doesn't mean that you can expect the latest version of Ubuntu to fly on 5
> year old hardware.
>
> Personally, I've found Karmic to be a little less demanding than Jaunty
> (mostly
> because of improvements in Firefox 3.5), but I can't back that up.
>
> If you have less than 1GB of RAM, you'll probably get a noticable
> improvement
> by adding some.
>
>>       * Every now and then, a multi-coloured block appears in the top,
>>         right-hand corner of my screen. Since this sometimes happens
>>         when I'm using Banshee music player, and a new song has just
>>         started, I assume that it is meant to be an information dialogue
>>         of some kind. I also assume, that similar to the following
>>         problem, it is due is some kind of display or font issue.
>
> Sounds like a notification. Do they also appear if you press the
> volume-control
> keys? If you don't have compiz enabled, they do look a bit ugly, yes.
>
>>       * This problem is more serious in that it is currently stopping me
>>         from getting some urgent work done. All text in my OpenOffice
>>         menus and tool bars has been replaced by coloured bars & lines.
>>         I assume this is due to OpenOffice having its internal font
>>         settings changed to a font that it cannot process. I have tried
>>         reinstalling OpenOffice (without uninstalling) with no joy.
>
> That sounds like a graphics driver issue.
>
> Did you upgrade your Ubuntu install, or install it from scratch? If you
> upgraded, try the Live CD and see if you still have that issue.
>
> SR
>
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This sounds like an uncommon problem. Since Thursday I have installed
Karmic on 3 devices now: an HP Pavilion laptop, an Acer Aspire One,
and an oldish desktop, and on each one there is major speed increases.
So this is really rare that it would use more resources.

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