asearle
December 14th, 2015, 01:24 PM
Hallo Everyone,
I am installing Lubuntu 15.10 (64bit) on a friend's Compaq 6715b and am having some strange problems:
Under 14.04 LTS everything works like a dream but the Broadcom WiFi unit is not detected.
Under 15.10 (fresh install) everything worked like a dream (including video-playback speed AND the Broadcom WiFi) BUT when I ran my first software/system update, video speed on DVDs and online (e.g. YouTube) dropped into basement with videos juddering and CPU-usage up to 100%.
I thought it might be the video-driver but ATI-Radeon is installed. I also tried installing "fglrx" but that completely broke the system with me not even being able to boot (boot-graphics turned into blotches rather than letters) so I did another fresh install.
This is bizarre. Especially the fact that an update caused the drop in speed and increase in CPU-usage.
What should I do? Try to do more diagnostics (I have already spent hours!!! on this) or wait for (L)Ubuntu to issue an update with a fix? Or should I investigate another potential cause of the problem?
Many thanks for any tips that you can give.
Yours,
Alan Searle
Cologne
I am installing Lubuntu 15.10 (64bit) on a friend's Compaq 6715b and am having some strange problems:
Under 14.04 LTS everything works like a dream but the Broadcom WiFi unit is not detected.
Under 15.10 (fresh install) everything worked like a dream (including video-playback speed AND the Broadcom WiFi) BUT when I ran my first software/system update, video speed on DVDs and online (e.g. YouTube) dropped into basement with videos juddering and CPU-usage up to 100%.
I thought it might be the video-driver but ATI-Radeon is installed. I also tried installing "fglrx" but that completely broke the system with me not even being able to boot (boot-graphics turned into blotches rather than letters) so I did another fresh install.
This is bizarre. Especially the fact that an update caused the drop in speed and increase in CPU-usage.
What should I do? Try to do more diagnostics (I have already spent hours!!! on this) or wait for (L)Ubuntu to issue an update with a fix? Or should I investigate another potential cause of the problem?
Many thanks for any tips that you can give.
Yours,
Alan Searle
Cologne