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Originally Posted by snowpine
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Comon, you should know how 'fuzzy' those hardware requirements pages are. At best they are a rough guide.
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Originally Posted by ubuntu.fan
Do I need a video card or should I just get more memory (cheaper)?
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More memory will only help if you are running low on or out of memory.
If flash is bad when you only have 1 browser open, with 1 tab running 1 video (and if you havent tested like this, then try it) then I would really doubt you are anywhere near running out of memory with 2GB. So it probably wouldnt help at all.
A video card may help....or it might not. Part of why your video performance is so bad is because the intel GMA 900 onboard video chip is pretty awful. But I cant even remeber now if flash is using video acceleration with linux now. If it is, adding a video card would help a fair bit, if its not then adding a video card will only help a little bit.
Your real problem might be your 2GHz CPU. You cant really measure performance by GHz alone (which is why the hardware requirement pages are 'fuzzy'). I've got 1.8GHz CPUs that are faster tha 2.8GHz CPUs. That is only counting single core CPUs as well, there are lots of 1.something GHz dual core CPPUs that can be faster than 3GHz+ single core CPUs.
A few things that might help-
Go into yoru BIOS and make sure that yoru video RAM is 128MB+ (and if its max size is smaller than 128MB, use the max size).
Try installing the Xfce or Lxde desktop and logging into that.
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/xfce
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Originally Posted by ubuntu.fan
I need both I know that but I'm going to get one or the other right now. If it's a video card, what specs and brand do you recommend to run with ubuntu 10.04 32bit?
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Without knowing what motherboard you have and what avaible slots you have, we cant know what to suggest.
It might be best to get your hardware specs and post them here. Use 'sudo lshw' the same way you did with 'lspci | grep VGA' and then post the results here (please use code tags for that one, it will be big).
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Originally Posted by ubuntu.fan
watch the video with your favorite movie player
How do I do that when the video is in a website?
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You have to download the videos to the HDD. Knowing the way that this site works, its possible that some member/mod/admin will have problems with any directions on how to do that, as it could be considered piracy.
All I will say is that its easy using the most common browser with linux distros and one of several addons for that browser.
