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after nvidia driver on, unity desktop menu is gone away, still showed desktop items
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Simply activated the 310 driver rebooted and poof, menu gone. Thank God I had the cinnamon desktop and could control alt del and log out and log in...
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would using 32 bit ubuntu be better for me than 64 bit? i am using 64 bit glxgears was 500 now only 300?? ...
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I actually found not using the nvidia driver worked a little better. which i found very odd i just installed lubuntu desktop and it is no...
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MIR will be the new display server, and Unity will be ported to Qt
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Will MIR work better with older video hardware to deliver smooth video performance of internet video? I have an older laptop with nvidia go 6150...
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I can try that. other than that is there any older linux os that would have been better for that laptop? I am happy with it except for online...
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lighter weight os for better online video with older hardware?
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is it possible? I have a dv9005us laptop with go 6150 nvidia. It struggles with internet video smoothness, gets jumpy, laggy etc... So would a...
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lately been thinking of all the issues I have with it. Three different forums are blocked at outlook hotmail garage journal christian forums...
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2 Weeks Ago
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which is a good choice video edit
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kdenlive was the only one that did what i wished. I tried many of them and most were primitive or crashed.
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glxgear comparison on older laptop noveau vs nvidia, what to use?
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there is a wglgears program for win32 I ran it and get the same results when compared to the NVidia driver in Ubuntu as to the NVidia driver in win7...
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2 Weeks Ago
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glxgear comparison on older laptop noveau vs nvidia, what to use?
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the free noveau driver gives much better numbers laptop has go 6150 nvidia chip i also tried current driver and get same as 173 driver so what...
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2 Weeks Ago
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Broadcom BCM4311, Ubuntu 12.04 / 13.04
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is it possible for you to switch channels on either the wireless or the bluetooth ? maybe there is an overlapping conflict
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3.9 kernel and broadcom drivers
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sudo apt-get remove --purge bcmwl-kernel-source sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree this is what i did installed 13.04 wireless did not...
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go 6150 nvidia card noveau vs nvidia driver for online video?
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i dont know whether to pursue ubuntu on this laptop anymore. in regards to improving the video experience. I upgraded in win7 to ie10. laptop did...
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go 6150 nvidia card noveau vs nvidia driver for online video?
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glxgears testing with nvidia driver 500 frames 60fps with noveau driver 500 frames 120 fps anyway watching online video was not better with...
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go 6150 nvidia card noveau vs nvidia driver for online video?
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the laptop is not upgradable and online video is pretty terrible. I am currently using the nvidia driver version 306?. would it work better using...
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Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 slow to reconnect when laptop awakens
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03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01) it takes up to a minute, message is networks out of range....
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