Re: sloooow laptop
From: fr4sprt (fr4sprt_at_bellsouth.net)
Date: 11/02/05
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Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 22:58:08 -0500
good call on Knoppix -- I have taken the settings down and am trying to
emulate them.
Being a newbie I have gotten my feet wet with a lot of different distros,
most have left a rotten taste in my mouth. I loved SUSE when I first got it
loaded here on the laptop and just wish I didnt have these trivial
problems. Based on what I hear from the group, I am ready to format a tower
and experiment further. I just wish this old laptop had given more, but so
far, I am impressed with what I see
roodwriter@core.com wrote:
> fr4sprt@bellsouth.net wrote:
>> I have a Gateway Solo5300 that used to have Windows 2000 Professional
>> installed on it. The machine ran great under Windows, but I wanted Suse
>> installed in order to get to know the OS.
>>
>> I managed to format the drive and and installed a fresh copy of Suse and
>> I love it so far. My only problem is that the laptop seems to be anemic
>> now.
>>
>> The machine is so slow that its almost unbearable. What can I do?
>>
>> The laptop has 313 MB of memory which should be alright. Its a PIII
>> 700MHz. As I said the machine performed adequately before with Microcrap
>> installed. I just want things to speed up a bit and I would be very
>> happy.
>>
>> I installed the reccomended laptop configuration and I primarily "for
>> now" am just surfing, emailing and Word processing -- not too heavy a
>> usage.
>>
>> This letter I am writing, I have to wait for the letters to catch up to
>> me for instance. When I click an icon I have to wait a moment or two for
>> it to open. If I have Firefox open with more than three tabs the machine
>> almost freezes up. I try to close the tabs and the machine acts like its
>> in slow motion I have seen it take up to an an hour or two to act on my
>> commands.
>>
>> Any suggestions? I am still fairly new at Linux.
>
> You didn't say which version of SuSE you tried.
>
> I had a similar problem with a brand new Presario a few months ago. I
> put 9.1 on it, totally obliterating the Windows before it had a chance
> to start. I used 9.1 because that's what I had on my desktop.
>
> SuSE 9.1 ran fine on the desktop. Ran like a slug on the laptop. I was
> about ready to frisbee it.
>
> Just to be sure I didn't get a lemon, I tried a Knoppix 3.1 (old) disk
> on it. Ran good.
>
> Most of the people in here suggested that SuSE 9.3 was better for
> laptops so I went to the store and bought it. Now everything works good
> except for the modem, which apparently isn't Linux-compatible. So I'm
> using an external modem with a USB adapter.
>
> I don't know if using SuSE 10.0 would be better. It wasn't out when I
> got this thing.
>
> I only had two very odd problems, which were fixed with settings. One
> was that the modem crawled. This was apparently because being on the USB
> port fooled the system. I checked the settings and it said something
> like 4,000,000. I set it to its proper speed and now it modems fine.
>
> The other was that the 64-bit system ran the clock at double speed. I
> tamed the clock with typing in a parameter every time I boot. That is,
> when the first Linux prompt comes up. In my case it was "noapic". Some
> others I've seen were "nolapic", "no_timer_check", "no_timer_check=0"
> and "no_timer_check==0". Without using the quotation marks, of course.
>
> You may not have the clock problem, though.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> --Rod
> __________________________
> Author of "Linux for Non-Geeks--Clear-eyed Answers for Practical
> Consumers" and "Boring Stories from Uncle Rod." To reply by e-mail take
> the extra "o" from the name.
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