12.10 works fine for me on an old 1.4ghz core 2 duo laptop with nothing but onboard intel graphics, maybe you should try upgrading. Also it would be worth chec

12.10 works fine for me on an old 1.4ghz core 2 duo laptop with nothing but onboard intel graphics, maybe you should try upgrading. Also it would be worth checking if there is a proprietary video card driver and using that if so e.g. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia