[ubuntu-za] Ubuntu 11.10 disappointment

[Jan Greeff]

Hi Wesley, the problem recurred 30 minutes after booting on the drive 
with 11.10. It MAY have co-incided with the opening of Skype...


> Hi Jan
>
> i assume your older 11.04 also runs _unity_ and fine?
>
> In addition to Andre's advice, check your swap is online too. Use 'sudo swapon -s' in a terminal for this (no output means no swap).
>
> As your previous install is fine we can eliminate hardware (for now, unless a driver issue in the new install is involved).
>
> Doesn't Unity require hw acceleration? Im not too sure if it has a software fallback, so if 'classic' Gnome runs fine, then Unity is the issue.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Andre Rossouw"<andre at arnet.co.za>
> Sender:ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 07:25:52
> To:<jan at verslank.net>; Ubuntu South African Local Community<ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Reply-To:andre at arnet.co.za,
> 	Ubuntu South African Local Community<ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Ubuntu 11.10 disappointment
>
> Sorry for the top-posting, my phone does not allow me to edit the message body :S
>
> Check the disk speed and the health of the disk you have 11.10 installed on. From your message, it appears they are different disks?
>
> Regards
> ------Original Message------
> From: Jan Greeff
> Sender:ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> To: Ubuntu South African Local Community
> ReplyTo:jan at verslank.net
> ReplyTo: Ubuntu South African Local Community
> Subject: [ubuntu-za] Ubuntu 11.10 disappointment
> Sent: Dec 17, 2011 22:12
>
> Hi there, some comments will be appreciated, please.
>
> I have upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10, now my computer is running like an old
> woman trying to find out whether she can make better headway on crutches
> or a wheelchair.  When I boot on the drive where my old 11.04 is,
> everything is fine.
>
> I ran the gnome session fallback command and selected gnome classic,
> could this be the cause? The classic option on this version is also much
> different from the old one and very frustrating to work with.
>
> Jan
>