Ubuntu Maverick Netbook Edition Slow

Can you give the output of:

top -n 1 | head -n 12; echo; sudo lshw -C display

Thanks

If you get "backend", it's a known bug with Evolution software.

Here is the output of "top -n 1 | head -n 12; echo; sudo lshw -C display".

Hope it helps.

top - 17:08:38 up 4:12, 2 users, load average: 1.13, 0.94, 0.62
Tasks: 172 total, 2 running, 170 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 19.2%us, 4.5%sy, 0.1%ni, 73.2%id, 2.9%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2052468k total, 818520k used, 1233948k free, 59676k buffers
Swap: 4096536k total, 0k used, 4096536k free, 534192k cached

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
 1587 kdewald 20 0 383m 48m 20m R 97 2.4 2:16.17 mutter
 3535 kdewald 20 0 2620 1132 828 R 9 0.1 0:00.09 top
 1013 root 20 0 45612 14m 8044 S 5 0.7 1:17.56 Xorg
 1730 kdewald 20 0 3908 472 244 S 2 0.0 0:01.05 syndaemon
    1 root 20 0 2880 1720 1244 S 0 0.1 0:01.16 init

  *-display:0
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 03
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:16 memory:f7e00000-f7e7ffff ioport:dc00(size=8) memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:f7dc0000-f7dfffff
  *-display:1 UNCLAIMED
       description: Display controller
       product: Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2.1
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
       version: 03
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:f7e80000-f7efffff

I don't have Evolution installed on that computer. Looking at the results above, I noticed mutter is using a high percentage of cpu power. Can that be the problem?

Mutter seems to be a window interface.
Could you log off, and when in login screen, try to select another window manager (if another one is installed) and check if you have yet problem ?
Do you have a GUI dedicated to netbook ?
It's late in France, I will have a look tomorrow!

The GUI I was currently using was "Ubuntu Netbook Edition". After switching it to "Ubuntu Netbook Edition 2D" the speed improved a little bit, but was still slow. Executing "Ubuntu Desktop Edition" it does run fine.

How do I switch to another windows manager from the login screen?

I can't help. You should raise a bug against "mutter" packet.
I will check this evening on my netbook, as I have an EeePc with "Ubuntu Netbook Edition".

I found a similar bug in the mutter package and reported my problem there.
If anyone is interested: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutter/+bug/448420

Thank you very much.

I check on my EeePc, and Mutter uses a limited amount of CPU, when it is concurrent with RythmAndBox and Ktorrent.