I have been running Kubuntu 9.10 for a while now and had some quirks that were bugging me. I had installed all of the normal updates but some things just were not working right.
001- Firefox would randomly slow to a crawl and freeze up the system. I never knew when this was going to happen and it might go all day without the issue or it might happen fairly often throughout the day.
002- Randomly at boot my monitor would go out of range and a hard reboot would finally get the desktop to load. Again, I never knew when this was going to happen but it was getting on my nerves.
I read through all of the updates in the proposed repo and thought to myself, it's worth a try... Well, I installed the updates and the problems are gone! Now boot up is seamless, now more black screen between the xsplash and the KDE splash and boot time is better by at least a few seconds. Firefox has behaved all day, no slowdowns or lock ups.
I should mention that I am using on-board Intel graphics and an Acer 15" wide screen monitor. I do not recommend using the proposed updates normally but in this case these updates made a huge difference on my hardware. I like the boot experience now that is working like it should! I had thought there was too much of a gap between the xsplash and the KDE splash and it turned out I was correct. Hopefully these updates will make it into the main repos.
001- Firefox would randomly slow to a crawl and freeze up the system. I never knew when this was going to happen and it might go all day without the issue or it might happen fairly often throughout the day.
002- Randomly at boot my monitor would go out of range and a hard reboot would finally get the desktop to load. Again, I never knew when this was going to happen but it was getting on my nerves.
I read through all of the updates in the proposed repo and thought to myself, it's worth a try... Well, I installed the updates and the problems are gone! Now boot up is seamless, now more black screen between the xsplash and the KDE splash and boot time is better by at least a few seconds. Firefox has behaved all day, no slowdowns or lock ups.
I should mention that I am using on-board Intel graphics and an Acer 15" wide screen monitor. I do not recommend using the proposed updates normally but in this case these updates made a huge difference on my hardware. I like the boot experience now that is working like it should! I had thought there was too much of a gap between the xsplash and the KDE splash and it turned out I was correct. Hopefully these updates will make it into the main repos.
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