Ubuntu performs poorly on DV2000t

Well I have been running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn for the past month and it only somewhat impresses me. At first everything worked smoothly and loaded at a decent rate, not super fast or as fast as opening up firefox in XP, but still decent. Now Ubuntu loads up really slow and takes awhile to boot up.

Since I am not too familiar with Ubuntu yet, I don't know where I should start looking to increase boot times and general Ubuntu performance. Also, temps are fairly high and I am using Desklets but can't find a working Applet to read my temps similiar to RMClock for Windows. Fans are constantly on, more/less and I am afraid Ubuntu is hurting me more than helping me at the moment.

My set up is:
HP Dv2000t CTO
T7200 processor
Intel Pro 3945 a/b/g
Blutooth
Nvidia Go 7200

Running:
Feisty Fawn 7.04
Desklets
WICD (got rid of network manager)
Bitornado
VLC

 

Did you Gedit anything? Meaning, did you edit or add-on to any text files? Like Package sources, Fan/Temp stuff, etc:

 

hmmm yes i did, but since i did gedit i had done another fresh install so i dont believe it to be that... nothing with fan/temps at all, dunno how to mess with that stuff yet...

 

How is your partitions set up? If you have a separate /home partition, then maybe doing the fresh install still kept all the settings and/or problems.

 

no sir, one home big partition besides the swap. i have a 120gb hd and just let ubuntu do its thing on the install, didnt custom any partitions

 

Are you running the SMP kernel? Instructions on this thread, but if you haven't, you'll at least want to have done;

Code:

sudo apt-get install linux-686-smp

 

wow, thanks for that! it seems almost ESSENTIAL to have that included for any modern day notebook, i wonder why it wasn't defaulted into the install...oh well.

let me try that this evening when i get back from work and report back. i sure hope this is the case. i was tempted to go back to XP because of small things that bothered me in ubuntu like the fact that some windows go black when i try to maximize them or the fact that i cant maximize a video im watching while mozilla is open....bah

 

You can hit ALT+F2 during boot up to enable verbose mode to see if particular thing(s) are taking a long time to load.

You do not need to do that on Ubuntu anymore. On Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn, and on, all the processor kernels are combined. Unless you are going 64-bit, which means that you need a 64-bit version of Ubuntu.

 

nope, no 64-bit for me. so you are saying i should be OK w/o running the SMP kernel because it should already be provided in feisty fawn?

i'll post up what i find that lags on boot up and hopefully someone can help me decipher it.

 

Yes. That specific SMP kernel package is useless to install as Ubuntu does not use that anymore. So basically, do not worry about that.

 

The fan ticks often in Ubuntu is because the video driver is not power optimized. The heat is mostly coming from GPU rather than CPU. If you install the Nvidia driver, you will see the GPU temp almost always stay in 78C~82C where XP shows 75C sometimes.

I don't know if Go7200 supports coolbit or not. At least, mine 6150 doesn't support that.

 

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i've read that unbuntu and most linux distros are slow to boot, is this right? if thats the case, i need to look for the fastest loading distro if anyone has a recommendation

 

some tips here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=182304

more to come