hi .. i just installed ubuntu 7.10 .. previously had some experience with 7.04 and 6.10 ... however with the earlier 2 versions i was running on my desktop with LAN connection
now i installed 7.10 on my laptop .. BenQ S41 .. which has 8600GT gfx .. previous ubuntu versions not really compatible with this gfx so i didnt install

i managed to get everything working ... including INTEL PRO WIRELESS AGN .. problem is .. my wifi connection seems to be lagging or more specifically intermittent .. signal strength is good .. when i do a speed test it shows nicely 1200kbps or more .. but when i surf its always lagging ..
it seems the wifi is more comfortable with BURST of signal or consistent signal running all the time .. so when i surf and read and clik i do not always send or receive wifi signal .. but when i do clik it again it takes forever to load a page .. just like 56k ..

any ideas why ???

hi .. what loader or boot up did u use to dual boot OSX and UBUNTU ???
any specific instructions on how to do it ?? i tried but couldnt even do it on my desktop so i ran them on 2 seperate HDs ..
thanks ..

will give it a try later then .. after i finish downloading the latest HACKINTOSH .. hahahahahaaa
thanks

disabled the IPv6 in firefox .. now browsing back to normal liauu ... thanks

another thing i noticed about this 7.10 is everything is much more laggy compared to 7.04 .. anyone else experiencing this as well ???
i put the resource monitor up on taskbar ... even browsing seems to suck up quite significant CPU power .. hhmmmmmmmmm

your other alternative if u dont wanna reinstall XP is get some disk partitioner or manager to create another partition from inside your XP .. then install ubuntu into that new partition .. this is all assuming u have enuff HD space for both OS

i am having very laggy probs with 7.10 too .. opening and closing progs is very jerky and slow .. the compiz effects are oso extremely jerky
but disabling IPv6 has sort of solved slow connectivity prob ..

currently desktop has been leaving me shadows .. eg. when i open a window and then close that window .. a shadow or outline of that window remains on screen .. sometimes it goes away by itself sometimes it doesnt ...

another thing is the wireless .. sometimes its all perfect when i startup .. sometimes it did not even detect the wireless .. hahahahaaaa .. so i have to reboot .. sometimes more than once in order to detect my wireless .. but once its connected it stable ..

my spec .. BenQ S41
c2d 1.8
ddr2 2gb
8600M GS 256mb gfx

dual boot with MS windows

WICD works great ... thanks !!!

but still the shadow/outline prob persists ... as well as the laggy problems ...
i guess i will just have to wait for the revised/new version april next year .. hahahahaa

i suppose if u just allocate 15gb for ubuntu alone it is more than enuff ... unless u are storing lots of data in the same partition as well ...

anybody facing the prob i am facing below ??? there is an outline/shadow of a previously opened window on my desktop ... it goes away sometimes but sometimes doesnt ... after reboot it clears up but will come back again randomly ..
refer to the screenshot below ...

yes i am using 7.10 .. i have my desktop effects turned ON .. when i turn it off then no such shadow/ghost image prob

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Added on November 3, 2007, 12:15 pmthe BLUR WINDOWS option ?? hmmm .. will have to go check it shortly .. on my desktop now .. hehehehe

anyways .. i have spoken to another fren of mine who is quite well versed with LINUX (he was the one who got me into UBUNTU) .. i was told its the restricted driver prob .. its not refreshing fast enuff he said and not hardware prob .. he told me to try install BERYL as well .. see if it helps .. will update after i try the WINDOWS BLUR and BERYL steps ..

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Added on November 3, 2007, 1:18 pmjust checked on my lappy ... blur windows effects are not enabled oso ,,, hehehe

This post has been edited by QiW: Nov 3 2007, 01:18 PM

sometimes i just dont bother with the drivers from nvidia or ati ... more likely than not your gfx card just need to ENABLE THE RESTRICTED DRIVERS ..
system>admin>restricted driver manager ... enable the driver (maje sure u have internet connection coz it needs to download the driver)
should work ..