gerry, a couple of things to check please, may make life easier.gerry wrote:@Nooby- two examples of what I mean by slow. Using browser:
1- use mouse on right hand scroll bar. Does the page move smoothly, or does it move in a series of large jumps? Or, if I scroll from top to bottom in one go, do I have to sit and wait until it eventually takes one or two really big jumps?
2- Using Google. When I type into the search box, do I have to wait a couple of seconds for what I typed to appear, so that I can check it before I hit Search?
But yes, I agree, it is only subjective observation, but the examples above are conclusive enough for me. Of course the latest Lupu (or whatever it is now- I can't keep up) may go like greased lightning, but I don't feel like spending time and a cd on it, unless someone can convince me that I won't be disappointed.
EDIT: done some re-checking. It's only the Ubuntu- based ones that I tried that are that slow. The first (2009) dpup, spup099, and Wary are only subjectively (and, I think, actually) marginally slower than 4.3.1: but not enough to be annoyingly noticeable.
I did wonder whether the fact that the computer does not have a video card matters? And no NVIDIA so far as I can see. Video is looked after by circuitry on the motherboard. Could this affect display behaviour?
gerry
1/ browser: click on box in right hand corner between the _ and X, if it goes small do it again and it should be now set for the virtual screen size, sometimes the browser is set for the overall screen when built and not your own active virtal desktop size, it does slow things down if it thinks that it needs to work "outside the box" each time a screen of data is changed but only to display a part.
2/ Which Browser? I haven't come across this before and are interested, ?your not running out of cpu power are you, alternately it could be caching ram to swap-file and back or running out of both, ?what else do you have that is running at the time? You can often increase the video ram (at a loss of overall ram though) through your bios settings, maybe that is the problem.
From your startement I take it that your video is part of the chipset, a standard and not a problem today for the majority of motherboards that aren't high-end gaming boards. Start Hardinfo (system, system status and config), click on pci devices and look in the top right box for VGA Compatable Controller, click on that and have a look at the right bottom box for details of what you have, a specific driver may help or even just the xorg_high-lucid.pet in the ppm (don't forget a cold boot afterwards, not just a reboot).
hope i've helped
scsijon
flippin typos!