Comment 2 for bug 489360

I too had the same problem with Karmic Koala & am having the same 5738 laptop. When I was using Ubuntu 9.04, I didn't have any issues & was working pretty fine. However as soon as I upgraded distro to 9.10 (a big mistake that I still repent), my torrid time began! The kernel 2.6.30.x is really having issues with the video card & 2.6.28.x was the one that I booted to successfully but with extreme slowness in video performance. Xorg, the X Window System,was found to be the culprit & consumes more than 90% of CPU resources, quite unbelievably!!! And detecting sound cards is another headache with Karmic which I was tired of troubleshooting! Finally I got rid of Karmic & installed Jaunty again but now with a change of theme & great tweaks, in the form of great Linux Mint 7 which I'm thoroughly satisfied with now!!! Overall both video & audio needs to be fine tuned in Karmic... Without that the most beautiful look alone isn't worth sticking to it....