Linux Mint 13 - Slow

[xedoc]

Hi there...

I did buy this acer: http://www.grosbill.com/4-acer_aspire_v ... i_portable

I have installed Linux Mint but he is kind of slow for the computer that is. Sometimes he also stop and then he continue. Like if it was a crash but some seconds later he continue.

Does anyone have any ideas ?

[xenopeek]

Translating learns it has a Intel Core i3-2367M CPU with Intel HD Graphics, and 4 GiB RAM. The i3-2367M is an ultra-low power dual core processor at 1.4 GHz, and it has the HD 3000 IGP. This is from the Sandy Bridge series.

As to performance, you can perhaps gain some performance (at least shorten boot time) by disabling some services you don't need: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 77#p600177

The stopping and later continuing I've also had on my Sandy Bridge HD 3000 IGP. The solution is to add the boot parameter i915.i915_enable_rc6=0 (see my adventure into solving this here: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=113043). To do this, edit your /etc/default/grub file:

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sudo nano /etc/default/grub

Scroll with the down arrow key till you find the line:

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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

Then add the i915.i915_enable_rc6=0 boot parameter at the end, like so:

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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash i915.i915_enable_rc6=0"

Save and close the file (Ctrl+O, Enter, Ctrl+X). Then activate your changes and upon next reboot you should have no more crashes:

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sudo update-grub2

[axel668]

You could try Mint 13 XFCE, running it on an EeePC and for me it is considerably faster than Mint 13 with Cinnamon was

[xedoc]

Ok, i have installed the Mint XFCE, it's a little bit faster but it continue to have the temporary crashes. Specially when i open the software manager and search for some programme, it crash. Don't understand why,