Graphic display is not perfect

Hi, I don't know the Intel Brookdale video chipset myself, but you might want to see if there's any drivers available for it. Open up "Software Sources" and make sure that the repository "Restricted Software (Multiverse)" is enabled. Next open up "Additional Drivers" and let it search for and install any available drivers for your graphics card.

Chris

I have done it before...
In "Additional Drivers" it shows"No Proprietary are in use on this system" ..

I have window installer of my graphic driver can i install it on ubuntu..
Plz Help me, I dont want to go back again to windows

No you can't use the Windows driver with any Linux OS. Google searches on this older graphics chipset only produces results like this one:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/53667/fixing-display-issues-on-intel-82845gl

and the common theme seems to be that the only fixes that owners of this graphics found card satisfactory was either upgrading to a newer Nvidia graphics card or changing the OS to Lubuntu.

Since you can download Lubuntu for free and it will run much faster on older hardware this is an option you should seriously consider. How old is your computer? It's quite likely that you'll be a lot happier with the performance of Lubuntu in any case.

I recently bought a new Graphics card for my older test machine since the old ATI Rage graphics chipset wasn't capable of running Unity. It was a relatively cheap fix so if you really want the suite of applications that come with Ubuntu rather than the lighter versions of applications that come with Lubuntu then you need to consider this option.

Another option that was mentioned was to make sure that you are running Unity2d, not Unity3d which is most likely to cause you problems. At the lightdm login screen click on the gear icon at the top right of the login panel. Select "Unity2d" and complete the login. (Note: if you make a mistake with the password you'll have to select Unity2d again as it resets each time.) The reason why I didn't suggest this as the first option to try was that those that did seemed to think that the performance was so bad that the other options were preferable.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news

Chris

this is my hardware detail -- is it able to run ubuntu11.10 otherwise i have to chose lubuntu....

RAM-512 MB

eax in eax ebx ecx edx
00000000 00000005 756e6547 6c65746e 49656e69
00000001 00000f34 00010800 0000441d bfebfbff
00000002 605b5101 00000000 00000000 007c7040
00000003 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000004 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000005 00000040 00000040 00000000 00000000
80000000 80000008 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000002 20202020 20202020 20202020 6e492020
80000003 286c6574 50202952 69746e65 52286d75
80000004 20342029 20555043 30342e32 007a4847
80000005 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000006 00000000 00000000 04006040 00000000
80000007 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000008 00002024 00000000 00000000 00000000

Vendor ID: "GenuineIntel"; CPUID level 5

Intel-specific functions:
Version 00000f34:
Type 0 - Original OEM
Family 15 - Pentium 4
Extended family 0
Model 3 -
Stepping 4
Reserved 0

Extended brand string: " Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz"
CLFLUSH instruction cache line size: 8
Hyper threading siblings: 1

Feature flags bfebfbff:
FPU Floating Point Unit
VME Virtual 8086 Mode Enhancements
DE Debugging Extensions
PSE Page Size Extensions
TSC Time Stamp Counter
MSR Model Specific Registers
PAE Physical Address Extension
MCE Machine Check Exception
CX8 COMPXCHG8B Instruction
APIC On-chip Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller present and enabled
SEP Fast System Call
MTRR Memory Type Range Registers
PGE PTE Global Flag
MCA Machine Check Architecture
CMOV Conditional Move and Compare Instructions
FGPAT Page Attribute Table
PSE-36 36-bit Page Size Extension
CLFSH CFLUSH instruction
DS Debug store
ACPI Thermal Monitor and Clock Ctrl
MMX MMX instruction set
FXSR Fast FP/MMX Streaming SIMD Extensions save/restore
SSE Streaming SIMD Extensions instruction set
SSE2 SSE2 extensions
SS Self Snoop
HT Hyper Threading
TM Thermal monitor
31 reserved

TLB and cache info:
51: Instruction TLB: 4KB and 2MB or 4MB pages, 128 entries
5b: Data TLB: 4KB and 4MB pages, 64 entries
60: unknown TLB/cache descriptor
40: No 2nd-level cache, or if 2nd-level cache exists, no 3rd-level cache
70: Trace cache: 12K-micro-op, 4-way set assoc
7c: 2nd-level cache: 1MB, 8-way set assoc, sectored, 64 byte line size
Processor serial: 0000-0F34-0000-0000-0000-0000

Why yes, it is running it. Lubuntu will probably run faster and use less memory though, so the final decision is up to you. The best thing would probably be to download Lubuntu and try it.

Chris.

i meant for graphics...
this is my last question

what about Xubuntu???

I think it is above than lubuntu & below than ubuntu...
will it work better with above specifications ??..

Thanx for ur precious advice& feedbacks...

Yes, Lubunt should be fine on that graphics card... according the reports from people who have done it.

Xubuntu likewise should be OK also but you should test it out thoroughly before installing it. I did try Xubuntu on my ATI Rage graphics card before I upgraded my machine and it ran fine, but that doesn't definitely mean your card will OK.

Chris