[00:24] <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. :/
[00:27]  * snwh is back (gone 00:22:35)
[00:30] <darkxst> roasted, not really, which driver are you using?
[00:33] <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.
[00:34] <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.
[00:35] <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...
[00:36] <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.
[00:37] <darkxst> have seen a few reports of slow performance after time, but havent seen it myself
[00:38] <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
[00:39] <roasted> cause, I'm poor, and I work in IT, so I reuse hand-me-downs that are littering my basement - ha.
[00:40] <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.
[00:43] <darkxst> my laptop battery life is next to useless with the AMD enabled.
[00:45] <roasted> I'm looking at 6.5 hours on 95% charge right now
[00:45] <roasted> 60% brightness
[01:03] <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.
[01:08] <darkxst> my thinkpad works fine with samba
[01:09] <roasted> :(
[01:09] <roasted>  3459 ?        00:00:15 nautilus <defunct>
[01:10] <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.
[01:11] <roasted> yep, 1.4 MB in and it locked up already
[01:12] <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
[01:13] <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.
[01:14] <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.
[01:15] <darkxst> what with the stock cards?
[01:15] <roasted> yeah
[01:16] <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
[01:17] <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.
[01:18] <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.
[01:19] <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.
[01:20] <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.
[01:21] <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.
[01:32] <roasted> Somehow I still have no wireless even with the open source B43 driver in 3.9.8. Nice.
[02:02] <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
[02:03] <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