ubuntu problems

[spi11655]

hey everyone i am new to linux but finally managed to install ubuntu 10.10 on a separate internal hard drive . i am actually on linux writing this post(probably only exiting to just me). i was however wondering about a few issues i have found with this os and have come up with a couple of questions that i hope someone can help me with:

1) why does it freeze randomly and probably a little too often (way too often to compete with any other os)? any way to fix or minimize this?
2)internet can be fast once on a web page for some certain amount of time but any new navigation is quite slow. the cache of this particular hdd is 16mb but i have 8 gigs of ram and 4 processors.
why is it so "slow" and is there any way to fix this?

thanks

[devils casper]

1) why does it freeze randomly and probably a little too often (way too often to compete with any other os)? any way to fix or minimize this?

Which Graphics Card do you have?

Execute this command in Terminal :

lspci | grep -i vga

Post output here.


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[spi11655]

matt@matt-HPE-400y:~$ lspci | grep -i vga
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Cedar PRO [Radeon HD 5450]

[devils casper]

You have to install ATI Driver. Check in System - Administration - Additional Drivers. Does it list ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver? Select it and Ubuntu will download and install driver for you.

[spi11655]

i just downloaded it ...will it help with the slow internet?

[devils casper]

It will help in System Freeze problem only. For internet problem, I hope someone will chime in soon and post suggestion.

[spi11655]

thanks appreciate it devils casper.
is there anyone reading this feed that might know how to speed up my internet on ubuntu 10.10?
i have disabled ipv6. the internet is still slow to load pages though. i counted 27 seconds to begin loading this very page.
thanks

[nujinini]

... the internet is still slow to load pages though. i counted 27 seconds to begin loading this very page.
thanks

It might be the speed of your provider that is in question here. What speed did you subscribe to please?

[spi11655]

i have road runner and usually clocks between 7 and 10 mbps

[Ignotum]

The problems I've had in the past with Ubuntu (slow-downs, freezes, etc.) haven't been so evident in other distributions --- and so although I have Ubuntu installed, I tend to use it rather infrequently.

Unless you have a definite reason for wanting to use Ubuntu in particular, I'd try something else instead (e.g. Zenwalk, Arch, etc. --- or if mind-boggling quantities of free software are your thing, you could install Debian). They may not be quite as user-friendly as Ubuntu (though they're hardly user-hostile), but they should tell you whether it's simply an issue that Ubuntu has with your set-up, or whether it goes deeper. If you find that you are still encountering these problems on something as stable as, say, Slackware, then that would be disturbing...