[GirlFromNeptune]

Originally Posted by dragonmule

Sorry, the forum messed up the lines to add to sources.conf

The correct lines are on https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mobile/+archive/ppa

just do hardy first and then jaunty after build-dep

ohh so that's why it didn't work. i will try this now, thanks!

i didn't wipe the hard drive though. i don't have an external cd drive.. hope i'll still get good results skipping step one.

[GirlFromNeptune]

yes it worked! thanks a bunch dragonmule!

[dragonmule]

Be sure to use the lines in

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mobile/+archive/ppa

Ctrl-O saves in nano.

I went ahead and compiled the unstable firefox (3.0.14) and it runs a little faster. So far no crashes, but I have said that before. I'm starting to think some of the slowness with the default dell install may be the weird yahoo firefox setup.

I'm testing the improvement in video quality on these clips:

H.264 Demo Clips H264info.com

[dragonmule]

Originally Posted by GirlFromNeptune

i don't have an external cd drive.. hope i'll still get good results skipping step one.

I'd recommend at least a cheaper usb dvd drive to restore with. They are useful in any case.

[dragonmule]

Okay, so after a few days with firefox 3.0.14, I have not had any of the screen freeze crashes with flash popups. I think this particular problem can all be traced back to the weird firefox version included. I am going to test some different versions of precompiled firefox to come up with a good solution as it took quite a bit of time to compile firefox from source. I do think that this compiled version is well-optimized though as pages appear faster.

[dragonmule]

Since the machine uptime has crossed 24 hours without a crash, maybe I can hope that it won't crash now and post the code to at least replace firefox with 3.0.14 unstable. Use this at your own risk as this does install a cvs version over the yahoo dellbuntu version. Going back is not very hard.

sudo su
cd /root
apt-get build-dep firefox-3.0
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot co mozilla/client.mk
cd mozilla
make -f client.mk checkout MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser
nano -w .mozoptions

in .mozconfig, I added

mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser
mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/firefox-lpia
ac_add_options --enable-extensions=default
ac_add_options --enable-application=browser
ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter

ctrl-o to save, ctrl-x to exit nano

make -f client.mk build

(This takes a looooooooooong time. It it faster with SSD with good 4k r/w rating, but not that much faster. I'd suggest washing some clothes, filling all of your soap bottles, weeding, reading a book, etc.)

cd firefox-lpia
make install

(This will overwrite. Removing and installing firefox from package manager overwrites this.)

ln -sf /etc/alternatives/firefox-flashplugin /usr/local/lib/firefox-3.0.14pre/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so

(Or wherever you have flash just in case you installed some different version of flash)

[GirlFromNeptune]

thanks! i fiinally got an external optical drive, reinstalled ubuntu, then installed xp, then windows 7. turns out xp makes it much much faster, almost comparable to the mini 9. surprisingly, windows 7 runs quite well too.

[Kelvinyam]

Originally Posted by GirlFromNeptune

thanks! i fiinally got an external optical drive, reinstalled ubuntu, then installed xp, then windows 7. turns out xp makes it much much faster, almost comparable to the mini 9. surprisingly, windows 7 runs quite well too.

Which is better in term of speed, Win7 or WinXP?

[GirlFromNeptune]

whoops, sorry for the delay. i haven't been here in a long time. as of now, XP is faster on the 12