choppy visual, slow, glitchy

[m millike]

Since download of new version of Ubuntu (14.04) in the last week or so, computer is painfully slow, will not display properly, delays commands (i.e. click on something and it can take up to 30 seconds to load), video doesn't stream, applications glitchy and type loads slowly. Mouse won't traverse extended desktop.

Only 17.5 GB of 129 GB hard drive in use, and only a few peripherals. It's like the RAM is all used up with something.

System testing crashed.

Even just moving some files around, with no applications open, it crashed claiming no memory to diagnose and send error report for program called "compiz" (or something like that).

Opened terminal to try to revert to Lucid as per instructions, but won't recognize password.\

Any way I can 'system restore' to the previous version?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-34.60-generic 3.13.11.4
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-34-generic i686
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.3
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
Date: Tue Aug 26 23:28:08 2014
DistUpgraded: 2014-08-21 23:18:41,758 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
DistroCodename: trusty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:a011] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0349]
   Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0349]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-08-11 (1476 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429.4)
MachineType: Acer AO532h
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-34-generic root=UUID=e47728b8-2c9c-4e50-af03-e3c29692417f ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-08-22 (5 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 03/11/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Acer
dmi.bios.version: V1.20
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: AO532h
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.board.version: V1.20
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
dmi.chassis.version: V1.20
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:bvrV1.20:bd03/11/2010:svnAcer:pnAO532h:pvrV1.20:rvnAcer:rnAO532h:rvrV1.20:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrV1.20:
dmi.product.name: AO532h
dmi.product.version: V1.20
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.11.2+14.04.20140714-0ubuntu1
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.52-1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.8.2-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.3.0-1ubuntu3.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.10-1ubuntu2
xserver.bootTime: Tue Aug 26 10:16:51 2014
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors:

xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.outputs:
 product id 12498
 vendor AUO
xserver.version: 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2

[penalvch (penalvch)]

m millike, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. As per http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/drivers an update to your computer's buggy and outdated BIOS is available (1.26). If you update to this following https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIOSUpdate does it change anything?

If it doesn't, could you please both specify what happened, and provide the output of the following terminal command:
sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date

For more on BIOS updates and linux, please see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette .

Please note your current BIOS is already in the Bug Description, so posting this on the old BIOS would not be helpful. As well, you don't have to create a new bug report.

Once the BIOS is updated, and the information above is provided, then please mark this report Status New.

Thank you for your understanding.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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