| roasted | Is there any way to speed up Gnome Shell? I am not overly happy with it on an AMD E450 APU. It runs so dang sweet on a heavily neutered mobile i5 though. :/ | 00:24 |
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| * snwh is back (gone 00:22:35) | 00:27 | |
| darkxst | roasted, not really, which driver are you using? | 00:30 |
| roasted | darkxst: the open source one I suppose. I didn't install fglrx. | 00:33 |
| roasted | (and would prefer not to for countless reasons) | 00:33 |
| darkxst | roasted, atleast test with it | 00:33 |
| roasted | It seems to run worse as time goes on, though. | 00:33 |
| roasted | fresh boot, all is well. After time my proc is just maxed. | 00:33 |
| darkxst | roasted, oh really? that is strange | 00:34 |
| roasted | I'm sitting at a load of 0.44 now. Last night I was at 3.5 just on IRC. | 00:34 |
| darkxst | gnome-shell should never use more than a few percent cpu | 00:35 |
| darkxst | roasted, run it under strace, and see if you can find what is causing the load | 00:35 |
| roasted | I don't think it was gnome-shell in particular. I just remember seeing my proc just sitting high. | 00:35 |
| roasted | I just fired the unit up though. I'll keep an eye on it as time goes on. | 00:35 |
| roasted | I did shut off animations in dconf though for some extra insurance. | 00:35 |
| darkxst | roasted, well in that case just check system-monitor and see what process is flooding the cpu | 00:35 |
| roasted | Maybe I should reenable them and see how things go... | 00:35 |
| darkxst | that shouldnt make any difference | 00:36 |
| roasted | yeah, I tend to keep htop running in another workspace cause I'm ADD and need to see what's going on. :P | 00:36 |
| roasted | I'll monitor it closely. | 00:36 |
| darkxst | have seen a few reports of slow performance after time, but havent seen it myself | 00:37 |
| roasted | the animations are a little jittery on this unit when enabled | 00:38 |
| roasted | htop is still showing a good stance though | 00:38 |
| roasted | gosh I freakin love gnome shell. I want to run it on everything. | 00:38 |
| roasted | but most of the gear I own is super old | 00:38 |
| roasted | cause, I'm poor, and I work in IT, so I reuse hand-me-downs that are littering my basement - ha. | 00:39 |
| darkxst | intel support is pretty good even for the older chipsets | 00:40 |
| darkxst | radeon can be hit and miss unfortunately | 00:40 |
| roasted | I love intel. super happy with that company. | 00:40 |
| roasted | This laptop just happens to be an AMD APU, which I avoid at all costs, but it's a nice form factor, 11.6", decent battery, etc... so it's a good unit to use. | 00:40 |
| darkxst | my laptop battery life is next to useless with the AMD enabled. | 00:43 |
| roasted | I'm looking at 6.5 hours on 95% charge right now | 00:45 |
| roasted | 60% brightness | 00:45 |
| roasted | I think the biggest thing that bothers me with this Lenovo is the fact that samba transfers are garbage. | 01:03 |
| roasted | I get like 10, 15 MB into a transfer and it dies EVERY time. | 01:03 |
| roasted | Yet Ubuntu GNOME on my Toshiba works with gigabytes upon gigabytes. | 01:03 |
| darkxst | my thinkpad works fine with samba | 01:08 |
| roasted | :( | 01:09 |
| roasted | 3459 ? 00:00:15 nautilus <defunct> | 01:09 |
| roasted | I'm transferring a full 2GB file now and it seems to be okay. I wonder if it's the series of multiple smaller files that gets it. | 01:10 |
| roasted | yep, 1.4 MB in and it locked up already | 01:11 |
| darkxst | roasted, try with nfs or some other protocol | 01:12 |
| darkxst | maybe a kernel bug | 01:12 |
| roasted | could be | 01:12 |
| roasted | 3.8.0-25 is the latest, no? | 01:12 |
| darkxst | probably I am on saucy now, which is 3.10 | 01:12 |
| roasted | maybe I should grab the upstream 3.9 and see how that works. | 01:13 |
| darkxst | roasted, test with the lasted mainline packages | 01:13 |
| roasted | I've been resistant towards doing that in the past because getting Braodcom STA driver working in newer drivers not-already-pushed by Ubuntu was a no-go. | 01:13 |
| roasted | But this laptop, fortunately, uses B43 open source driver. | 01:14 |
| roasted | My other Lenovo uses STA, and it's locked down so much IC annot change the wireless card. | 01:14 |
| roasted | It locks on boot @ BIOS level for having "unsigned hardware" | 01:14 |
| roasted | (way to fail, Lenovo) | 01:14 |
| roasted | customers can't even upgrade their wireless card. pfft. | 01:14 |
| darkxst | what with the stock cards? | 01:15 |
| roasted | yeah | 01:15 |
| roasted | I couldn't swap the Broadcom 43228 out of it. | 01:16 |
| roasted | 43228 requires STA. | 01:16 |
| roasted | Which is a major :( | 01:16 |
| roasted | So when I installed newer kernels, STA just didn't work. It said it was enabled, but no wifi. I reinstalled it, says enabled, no wifi. | 01:16 |
| roasted | But this chip is 43224, which works with the open source B43 driver. | 01:16 |
| darkxst | the 3G wireless cards are locked down with a whitelist as well... | 01:16 |
| roasted | through Lenovo? | 01:16 |
| darkxst | yeh | 01:16 |
| roasted | Yeah... unfortunately I can't see myself recommending Lenovo to anyone after all of this nonsense. | 01:17 |
| darkxst | you don't have to buy a lenevo card, but only certain models with work | 01:17 |
| roasted | It's outrageous to not be able to swap a wireless card like that. | 01:17 |
| roasted | With my particular model, Lenovo told me I could buy the same card, but that was it. This exact model is the only thing it'll work with. | 01:17 |
| roasted | Some users a few years ago were raged because they couldn't put a wifi N card in their laptop. Lenovo just said, well, too bad. | 01:18 |
| roasted | In the future, if I ever buy a personal laptop again, I plan to just cut the crap out of the equation and get a System76 that I know will work with no fuss. | 01:18 |
| darkxst | mine has intel wireless ;) | 01:19 |
| roasted | gotta love that. | 01:19 |
| roasted | Yeah I'd be okay with it if I knew 100% what hardware was in it when I bought it. | 01:19 |
| roasted | Nvidia or Intel GPU, Intel proc, Intel/Atheros wireless, sign me up. | 01:19 |
| roasted | Anything else I'd happily nix out of the running. | 01:19 |
| roasted | I'm putting in Kernel 3.9.4 right now... once done I'll see if Samba works worth a hoot. | 01:20 |
| darkxst | well you can get the exact configuration from the p/n | 01:20 |
| roasted | yeah | 01:20 |
| roasted | yeah maybe I should b emore open minded about that and just make sure I know what I'm getting. | 01:20 |
| roasted | I've had other issues with Lenovo at work with dealing with them on a grand scale, so, part of my h8n comes from that too. | 01:21 |
| roasted | Somehow I still have no wireless even with the open source B43 driver in 3.9.8. Nice. | 01:32 |
| bjsnider | roasted, why did you get stuck with an amd system? | 02:02 |
| roasted | bjsnider: because it was free. | 02:02 |
| bjsnider | that might be enough enticement | 02:02 |
| bjsnider | no, that wouldn't do it | 02:02 |
| roasted | bjsnider: I don't need much for a laptop. Something small with decent battery life. I do all of my work on my desktop, however I'm renovating the basement (where my office is) so my desktop is :( | 02:03 |
| roasted | bjsnider: so I'm spending more time on the laptop these days until that's done | 02:03 |
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