@ Chris : Installed the package from ppa now. The display transition has become slow. Also the graphics response is slow. For instance played chess on chess.com (in the browser. would suggest to have a look at the graphics scheme there). Could not move the pieces smoothly by dragging them. No hung gpu till now in 20 minutes sudo lshw: picodtp description: Desktop Computer product: PROD00000000 vendor: OEM00000 width: 32 bits capabilities: smbios-2.2 dmi-2.2 smp-1.4 smp configuration: boot=normal chassis=desktop cpus=1 *-core description: Motherboard product: 845GL-W83637F physical id: 0 *-firmware description: BIOS vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD physical id: 0 version: 6.00 PG (03/25/2004) size: 128KiB capacity: 448KiB capabilities: isa pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb agp ls120boot zipboot *-cpu description: CPU product: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz vendor: Intel Corp. physical id: 4 bus info: cpu@0 version: 15.3.3 serial: 0000-0F33-0000-0000-0000-0000 slot: Socket 478 size: 2400MHz capacity: 3066MHz width: 32 bits clock: 133MHz capabilities: boot fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe constant_tsc up pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl cid configuration: id=0 *-cache:0 description: L1 cache physical id: 8 slot: Internal Cache size: 32KiB capacity: 32KiB capabilities: synchronous internal write-back *-cache:1 description: L2 cache physical id: 9 slot: External Cache size: 1MiB capacity: 1MiB capabilities: synchronous external write-back *-memory description: System Memory physical id: 1b slot: System board or motherboard size: 1GiB capacity: 2GiB *-bank:0 description: DIMM SDRAM Synchronous physical id: 0 slot: A0 size: 512MiB width: 64 bits *-bank:1 description: DIMM SDRAM Synchronous physical id: 1 slot: A1 size: 512MiB width: 64 bits *-pci description: Host bridge product: 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 100 bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0 version: 03 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz configuration: driver=agpgart-intel resources: irq:0 memory:d0000000-d7ffffff(prefetchable) *-display UNCLAIMED description: VGA compatible controller product: 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0 version: 03 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list configuration: latency=0 resources: memory:d8000000-dfffffff(prefetchable) memory:e2000000-e207ffff *-usb:0 description: USB Controller product: 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1d bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.0 version: 02 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: bus_master configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0 resources: irq:16 ioport:d800(size=32) *-usb:1 description: USB Controller product: 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1d.1 bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.1 version: 02 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: bus_master configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0 resources: irq:19 ioport:d000(size=32) *-usb:2 description: USB Controller product: 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1d.2 bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.2 version: 02 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: bus_master configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0 resources: irq:18 ioport:d400(size=32) *-usb:3 description: USB Controller product: 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1d.7 bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.7 version: 02 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=ehci_hcd latency=0 resources: irq:23 memory:e2080000-e20803ff *-pci description: PCI bridge product: 82801 PCI Bridge vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1e bus info: pci@0000:00:1e.0 version: 82 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pci bus_master resources: ioport:c000(size=4096) memory:e0000000-e1ffffff memory:40000000-400fffff(prefetchable) *-communication UNCLAIMED description: Communication controller product: HSF 56k HSFi Modem vendor: Conexant Systems, Inc. physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 version: 01 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list configuration: latency=32 resources: memory:e1000000-e100ffff ioport:c000(size=8) *-network description: Ethernet interface product: SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] physical id: 6 bus info: pci@0000:01:06.0 logical name: eth0 version: 02 serial: 00:11:5b:07:4e:5c size: 10MB/s capacity: 100MB/s width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=sis900 driverversion=v1.08.10 Apr. 2 2006 duplex=half latency=32 link=no maxlatency=11 mingnt=52 multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s resources: irq:21 ioport:c400(size=256) memory:e1010000-e1010fff memory:40000000-4001ffff(prefetchable) *-isa description: ISA bridge product: 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1f bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.0 version: 02 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: isa bus_master configuration: latency=0 *-ide description: IDE interface product: 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1f.1 bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.1 logical name: scsi0 logical name: scsi1 version: 02 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: ide bus_master emulated configuration: driver=ata_piix latency=0 resources: irq:18 ioport:1f0(size=8) ioport:3f6 ioport:170(size=8) ioport:376 ioport:f000(size=16) memory:40100000-401003ff *-disk:0 description: ATA Disk product: ST340014A vendor: Seagate physical id: 0 bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0 logical name: /dev/sda version: 3.54 serial: 3JS022L9 size: 37GiB (40GB) capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=00080f76 *-volume:0 description: EXT4 volume vendor: Linux physical id: 1 bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,1 logical name: /dev/sda1 version: 1.0 size: 9572MiB capacity: 9572MiB capabilities: primary bootable journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files dir_nlink recover extents ext4 ext2 initialized configuration: created=2010-07-29 11:45:55 filesystem=ext4 lastmountpoint= modified=2010-08-01 09:12:22 mounted=2010-08-01 09:12:22 state=clean *-volume:1 description: Extended partition physical id: 2 bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,2 logical name: /dev/sda2 size: 27GiB capacity: 27GiB capabilities: primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended *-logicalvolume:0 description: Linux swap / Solaris partition physical id: 5 logical name: /dev/sda5 capacity: 1608MiB capabilities: nofs *-logicalvolume:1 description: Linux filesystem partition physical id: 6 logical name: /dev/sda6 logical name: / capacity: 25GiB configuration: mount.fstype=ext4 mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,barrier=1,data=ordered state=mounted *-logicalvolume:2 description: Linux swap / Solaris partition physical id: 7 logical name: /dev/sda7 capacity: 1159MiB capabilities: nofs *-cdrom description: CD-R/CD-RW writer physical id: 0.1.0 bus info: scsi@0:0.1.0 logical name: /dev/cdrom logical name: /dev/cdrw logical name: /dev/scd0 logical name: /dev/sr0 capabilities: audio cd-r cd-rw configuration: status=nodisc *-disk:1 description: ATA Disk product: ST340014A vendor: Seagate physical id: 1 bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0 logical name: /dev/sdb version: 3.06 serial: 3JX7NRA8 size: 37GiB (40GB) capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=c082c082 *-volume description: Windows FAT volume vendor: mkdosfs physical id: 1 bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0,1 logical name: /dev/sdb1 version: FAT32 serial: 3263-c4fb size: 37GiB capacity: 37GiB capabilities: primary bootable fat initialized configuration: FATs=2 filesystem=fat label=data *-serial UNCLAIMED description: SMBus product: 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1f.3 bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.3 version: 02 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz configuration: latency=0 resources: ioport:500(size=32) *-multimedia description: Multimedia audio controller product: 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1f.5 bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.5 version: 02 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=Intel ICH latency=0 resources: irq:17 ioport:e000(size=256) ioport:e400(size=64) memory:e2081000-e20811ff memory:e2082000-e20820ff *-network description: Wireless interface physical id: 1 logical name: wlan0 serial: xxx capabilities: ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes ip=x.x.x.x multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg