Re: SuSE upgrade Q

From: Bill P. (google01103_at_xxxhotmailxxx.com)
Date: 04/29/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 21:00:25 -0400

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 17:50:52 -0700, Project Apollo <null@null.org> wrote:

> In article <pan.2004.04.28.07.54.55.7487@yahoo.co.uk>,
> "Charles Prince" <s_p_a_m_t_r_a_p@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 18:31:02 -0700, Project Apollo wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>> >
>> > I have a 1.4 GHz Pentium M and SUSE 9.0 feels slower than OS X or XP.
>> > Anything I can do to speed it up?
>>
>> Not having seen many mac users troll, I'll attempt to give you some
>> advice.
>
> Not being a troll, I will accept your advice.
>>
>> Try telling us exactly what you mean by feels slower. Is it that the
>> network is slower, the screen slower, the h/d slower, what?
>
> Network is fine. Apps launch more slowly. When I drag windows on screen,
> the screen redraws more slowly. Hard drive is fine.
>>
>> Have you looked in your logs to see if there are any problems being
>> reported?
> No. I will give it a try.
>>
>> Is it just a particular program that is slow?
> KMail, Konqueror, Word under WineRack is VERY slow. Opens files slowly,
> menus lag between the click and the dropdown. I dont really expect a
> Windows program under emulation to run as fast as a native app, but its
> exceedingly slow.
>>
>> How much memory have you got in your system and what is your graphics
>> card?
>
> 256MB. I think its an ATI Radeon. Whatever came with the ThinkPad.
>>
>> Does it boot slower? Which is something that I know is not true on
>> multiple hardware that I have seen dual boot between windows and linux
>> (many distro's).
>
> It does boot slower. It wont shutdown at all! Everytime I try to shut
> the computer down from Linux, it hangs where the progress bar is about
> 98% of the way done. I eventually have to push the power switch to shut
> the computer off.
>
> So...what do you think is going on?

Not that this will solve your problem but it might help - kde 3.2 is much
faster than 3.1 so if you can upgrade it should help. 

-- 
Using SUSE 9.0, KDE 3.2 & Opera 7.50 beta 1

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