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pururui have horrible slowdowns like 20 seconds between switching tabs in browser (only few are opened), slow scrolling of text in terminal, etc.15:41
persiaWhich browser?  Which environment?15:41
pururuthis is acer aspire one netbook15:41
pururudefault ubuntu-mobile15:41
pururuso, i think maybe xfce fit better for aspire one. cuz linpus (default os) uses xfce. but linpus have slowdowns too15:42
pururuanything like xubuntu-mobile exist? or i may try regular xubuntu15:43
persiaHrm.  I'm not at all sure if you're running the default, as others have reported success with the same hardware.  If you run gnome-system-monitor, does it show any resources fully used?15:43
persiaI haven't heard of a xubuntu-mobile.  The icons may be a bit small, but it ought to work.15:43
pururuactually gnome system monitor itself uses like 20-30 % of cpu, maybe even more15:44
persiaYeah.  gnome-system-monitor isn't that lightweight, but it can help show if something else is also using too much.15:45
persiaAlso, whlie it uses 20-30% for a while after startup, it should calm down within 30-60 seconds.15:45
persiaBut the important questions are : aside from gnome-system-monitor, is something else using all the CPU, or are you low on memory?15:46
pururuwhat tweaks should be applied after ubuntu-mobile install? like described here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne  ? i have not applied all of them, only part15:46
pururu300 of 490 memory used, and nothing else use cpu right now (browser is in background and it uses 0 %)15:47
persiaI don't happen to have such a device, but I suspect most of the things that apply to Desktop should also apply to Mobile, except perhaps for visual adjustments.15:47
pururuswitching tabs in pidgin is slow too (but not nearly as bad as in browser)15:48
persia300 of 490 doesn't sound like a lot of pressure.  Try (with gnome-system-monitor running), switching to the browser and switching tabs a couple times, then look back at gnome-system-monitor to see if there are CPU spikes at that time.15:48
pururujust moving mouse rise cpu use to 90% (1st core)15:49
persiaOK.  That's bad.  Do you have desktop effects enabled?15:49
pururuno15:50
pururumaybe i should enable medium effects15:50
pururucuz full effects make system slow too15:51
persiaI'd recommend disabling effects entirely, as from what you describe, it sounds like you're processing the events on your CPU, rather than a GPU, which tends to be slow.15:51
pururucompiz should offload processing to GPU instead of CPU, but will it be better with this integrated mobile gpu?15:51
pururu..15:52
persiaWell, compiz offloads processing to the openGL engine, which may or may not be the GPU.15:52
persiaWhether it works well with the integrated mobile GPU depends on how well that driver works.  Which GPU?15:52
pururuIntel Corporation Mobile 945GME15:53
pururui also use external monitor and antialiasing for text15:53
persiaantialiasing shouldn't take much, and the external monitor shouldn't make too much difference.15:54
pururugood to hear15:54
persiaI think your GPU should be supported, but I don't have one, so I can't promise anything.15:54
persiaI'd recommend trying setting visual effects to "None" and seeing if that makes it stop being slow.  If that doesn't help, just turn the effects back on.15:55
persiaNot sure what else might be the issue, or why moving the mouse would take so much CPU.15:55
pururuits supported and DRI enabled, i even can play Quake with good performance. this CPU is probably as fast as Geforce 1st series, from glxgears scores15:55
pururus/CPU/GPU15:56
persiaHrm.  Dunno then.15:57
pururuok i'll try playing with effects. do you know when netbook remix will be released? i hope they will include tweaks by default, like disable logging to SSD and such15:59
pururui also not sure if this midbrowser uses SSD as cache like firefox do15:59
pururuno such option here16:00
persiaI don't know about the release schedule for any remixes : you'd do best to ask the maintainers of the remix.16:01
ian_brasilpururu: i am on an aspire one a.t.m16:02
persiaian_brasil, Do you see the same slowdown?16:03
ian_brasilno16:03
ian_brasilwell sometimes midbrowser freezes but not to the same extent as pururu reports16:04
persiaHrm.16:04
ian_brasilmaybe it is the theme16:04
ian_brasili was testing it on friday and it is pretty resource intensive16:05
ian_brasilpururu: try changing the theme to a metacity one to test this16:05
ian_brasiluse gconf-editor for this and choose one of the themes in /usr/share/themes16:08
ian_brasilit uses NewHumanMobile as a default b.t.w16:08
ian_brasildesktop-gnome-interface-gtk_theme in gconf-editor and right click on the theme to edit it16:09
pururuoh... well...16:14
pururui useing DarkRoom theme16:14
pururu(mm i should say "i'm were useing?" sorry for my English)16:15
ian_brasilwhat engine does this theme use?16:16
pururuits one of supplied with ubuntu-mobile themes16:16
* ian_brasil looks for info about DarkRoom theme16:17
pururui see both metacity and compiz are running16:18
pururui tried to switch to other themes, dont see any difference16:19
ian_brasilthis uses the murrine theme engine which is very nice and all but is pretty heavy16:19
pururu(but not how you described, and just with appearence applet)16:19
pururumurrine?16:20
ian_brasilthis is the engine which ' makes' the theme more or less16:21
pururuand human theme uses which engine?16:21
ian_brasilif you were to choose a theme based on Raleigh for example this would  use much less resources16:21
ian_brasilthe same murrine16:21
pururuinteresting16:22
ian_brasilbut also not look as nice obviously16:22
pururumaybe xfce or kde will be better? i also heard they included new type of acceleration for intel video in new Xorg, but it is disabled by default16:23
persiaI've heard that the changes to KDE to work nicely on smaller screens won't land until 4.2, so you might want to delay that (although you may find a theme you like).16:24
persiaI don't know the state of Xfce for high-DPI devices though.16:24
pururumm this acceleration... probably DRI2 or something16:25
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ian_brasilplaying around with MID themes23:09
ian_brasilcheck out ubuntu golden23:09
ian_brasilhttp://ianlawrence.info/downloads/ubuntu-mid/ubuntu-mobile-theme.png23:09
persiaThat's fairly pleasing.  That's kourou?23:10
ian_brasilwhat is kourou?23:10
persiaThe launcher for intrepid MID.23:10
persiaReplaces mobile-basic-flash.23:10
ian_brasilerm, this is on hardy23:12
ian_brasilon the geode23:12
persiaOh.  Pretty, but not directly importable :)23:14
ian_brasillike lots of things..pretty but useless! 23:18
persiaheh.23:19
playyado you have a central repo for the source? i want to have some parts on my n80023:19
persiaplayya, archive.ubuntu.com23:19
playyai'm thinking of a git,bzr,svn,cvs, hg 23:20
persiaThen no.  It's a collection of many pieces of software.  The upstream software is stored in all of those and more.  Debian packages most of the software, and Ubuntu the remainder, and patches are added where needed.  The integrated collection becomes Ubuntu Mobile or Ubuntu MID.23:22
playyaok23:23
playyaanyone tried to add openembedded recipes for some parts?23:23
persiaI don't know of any explicit integration of that, but I could be mistaken.23:26

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