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7 Hours Ago

sdowney717 started a thread after nvidia driver on, unity desktop menu is gone away, still showed desktop items in General Help

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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1 Week Ago

sdowney717 replied to a thread lighter weight os for better online video with older hardware? in The Cafe

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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1 Week Ago

sdowney717 replied to a thread lighter weight os for better online video with older hardware? in The Cafe

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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1 Week Ago

sdowney717 replied to a thread MIR will be the new display server, and Unity will be ported to Qt in The Cafe

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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1 Week Ago

sdowney717 replied to a thread lighter weight os for better online video with older hardware? in The Cafe

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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1 Week Ago

sdowney717 started a thread lighter weight os for better online video with older hardware? in The Cafe

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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2 Weeks Ago

sdowney717 started a thread outlook hotmail down again in The Cafe

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

sdowney717 replied to a thread which is a good choice video edit in Multimedia & Video

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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2 Weeks Ago

sdowney717 replied to a thread glxgear comparison on older laptop noveau vs nvidia, what to use? in Multimedia & Video

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

sdowney717 started a thread glxgear comparison on older laptop noveau vs nvidia, what to use? in Multimedia & Video

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

sdowney717 replied to a thread Broadcom BCM4311, Ubuntu 12.04 / 13.04 in Networking & Wireless

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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