On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Andrew Kohlsmith (mailing lists account) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aklists@mixdown.ca">aklists@mixdown.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thursday, September 16, 2010 11:49:22 am Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:<br>
> I am using Kubuntu and therefore don't see these issues with Plymouth<br>
> or Pulse.<br>
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</div>I'm running Kubuntu as well. Plymouth isn't used for obvious reasons, but<br>
Pulse drives me nuts.<br></blockquote><div><br>I don't see pulse running on my laptop.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">> Video works well with all the 3D effects that were not there on older<br>
> releases, since I downgraded to VESA initially, then uses the i915<br>
> driver.<br>
<br>
</div>Any special PPA?<br></blockquote><div><br>No. <br><br>I did something like that on old releases (was it 8.04?), but have not done <br>that on 9.10 or 10.04. <br><br>I assume the i915 is the one from the xserver-xorg-video-intel package.<br>
<br>Nothing special here.<br><br>lspci says I have the following:<br><br>00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)<br>00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)<br>
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)<br><br>And here it is with -vn in case you want to compare device IDs and drivers.<br><br>00:00.0 0600: 8086:2a40 (rev 07)<br> Subsystem: 1179:ff1e<br>
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0<br> Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information <?><br> Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel<br> Kernel modules: intel-agp<br><br>00:02.0 0300: 8086:2a42 (rev 07)<br>
Subsystem: 1179:ff1e<br> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 29<br> Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]<br> Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]<br>
I/O ports at 5110 [size=8]<br> Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable+<br> Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3<br> Kernel driver in use: i915<br>
Kernel modules: i915<br>00:1b.0 0403: 8086:293e (rev 03)<br> Subsystem: 1179:ff1e<br> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22<br> Memory at d6800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]<br>
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2<br> Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-<br> Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00<br>
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?><br> Capabilities: [130] Root Complex Link <?><br> Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel<br> Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">> The only audio problem I see is when Flash gets pegged, and prevent<br>
> other applications (e.g. Amarok) from using sound. When this happens<br>
> I see npviewer.bin taking 100% of one core, and kill it. This being a<br>
> 64-bit install, only Flash's process get killed, not the entire Firefox<br>
> browser.<br>
<br>
</div>Maybe that's the issue. I have seen Flash hang quite a bit and yes, it pegs<br>
the CPU. 64-bit install here as well, although I use Chrome. Killing<br>
npviewer.bin is a daily occurance. :-)<br></blockquote><br>I have a widget in the task bar that shows CPU utilization. When I see one<br>core pegged at 100%, I click it and it pops up system activity and npviewer.bin<br>
will be using 49% (i.e. almost one core), and I kill it.<br><br>Yes, it hangs with Chrome too.<br></div>-- <br>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a href="http://2bits.com">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br><a href="http://2bits.com">http://2bits.com</a><br>
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