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[Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Heyya Joe,

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Joseph Zitt <jzitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> First, my apologies for posting outside the key topics of politics or
> dentistry.

Dude, we all hate politics. No worries.

>
> I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition with the Unity interface on an Asus
> Eee 1001P. [0]

Oh no. I see where this is going...

>
> The system has some quirks, such as starting with the keyboard NumLocked
> (which led me to think that i couldn't log in at all until I realized it)
> and not supporting an external monitor well.

:(

>
> It also sometime grinds effectively to a halt. I hear it continuously
> accessing the hard drive, but can't do anything. This sometimes happens when
> I revive it by pressing a key after it's been idle for several hours, but
> also see it in some other less well-defined circumstances. (One thing I
> found was that opening the Files and Folders screen, so I don't use that
> anymore, sticking with Gnome Commander.) When this happens, all I can do is
> forcibly power down then power it back up.

This is more Unity then anything else. Since Mutter does not support
hardware acceleration, it renders via software. BOO!

I was trying to backport netbook-launcher to no avail. :(

>
> I seem to remember there being scripts, and possibly even software packages,
> that straightened this stuff out, but I'm not seeing them anymore.
>
> BTW, I hated the Unity interface when I first experienced it, but have grown
> to like it. With the help of Gnome Do, a bunch of Firefox plugins, Dropbox,
> and a few other tools, this is a surprisingly useful little PC.
>
> So... does anyone have any pointers on getting 10.10 to work better on this
> Eee?

Switch to 10.04. I know it sounds backwards, but 10.10's unity
iterface is really really REALLY buggy. I've switched off of UNE
because of it

:(

>
> [0] http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=5AH8HAdGuhiQIXgg
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Let us know how it goes!!!

-Paul

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