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Ya...ya..ya brag on your fast machine.
I'm due for a faster one soon. I may have to check out that os-less one at
walmart.... If only I could sneak that past the XYL....
Anyway, I made another attempt and most everything worked right. For the
first 20 minutes of operation my HD was super busy: the machine idled around
20% utilitzation. I suspect the search daemon was doing it's initial run.
It finished, following that I got everything configured and played around
with it.
My initial observation stands: it's extremely slow to launch apps on the
desktop. Anyone know any tricks short of throwing more memory and hardware
at it?
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason DeWitt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 10:26 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [brluglist] Mandrake 8.2 letdowns...
>> 1. The default install on my system took a while (approx 45 minutes) as
compared to 8.0 which took considerably less.
It went pretty quick for me, I've got a Celeron 550 with 448 ram. Actually
it was faster than 8.0 or 8.1
>> 2. The install did not allow me the option of not installing the
bootloader (perhaps because I chose recommended?)
I've done both an expert (I usually choose this one) and a recommended
install, on the expert it will let you customize the bootloader all you
want.
>> 3. The install didn't allow me to set up x the way I wanted to... (maybe
for the same reason)
Right. =)
>> 4. Booting up seemed much slower than usual. ( I use loadlin from a dos
boot....fast)
Does yours load Aurora (the pretty start up) on startup? Mine is and this
version seems alot slower than previous versions.
>> 5. Upon booting my system and logging in for the first time, I was
confronted by the "Mandrake First Time Wizard" which pretty much prevented K
from loading properly (i.e. up popped an app that bugged me for personal
information - my system did not respond at all to key-board input, so I was
locked out)
The first time wizard would be pretty cool, *if* I was a first-timer. =) I
usually just select my desktop and then hit cancel. Sometimes I just go
ahead and make my .xinitrc and set it for my preferred desktop, but it seems
to not like it if you don't let that wizard choose one first, then manually
set it how you want it.
>> 6. Getting into the second time worked; I discovered that the install
program had misconfigured the audio (yamaha on-board) despite having
detected and reported it correctly. (really no beg deal, I've never had this
actually work...much less detect properly...)
Soundcards suck almost as much as modems. =)
>> 7. K would take an eternity to launch an app. (5 to 15 seconds...)
Doesn't it always? ;-)
>> Has anyone else experiemented with 8.2?
I've installed it twice I think. The only problem is that I've yet to get
the nvidia drivers to install right. Do they come installed by default? I
don't get the nvidia logo when I start X but some stuff seems accellerated.
I've always compiled them from source, but I think I will try the rpms this
time.
Jason
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<DIV><SPAN class=972260714-26032002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Ya...ya..ya brag on your fast machine. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=972260714-26032002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I'm
due for a faster one soon. I may have to check out that os-less one at
walmart.... If only I could sneak that past the XYL....</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=972260714-26032002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Anyway, I made another attempt and most everything worked
right. For the first 20 minutes of operation my HD was super
busy: the machine idled around 20% utilitzation. I suspect the search
daemon was doing it's initial run. It finished, following that I got
everything configured and played around with it.
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=972260714-26032002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>My
initial observation stands: it's extremely slow to launch apps on the
desktop. Anyone know any tricks short of throwing more memory and
hardware at it?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Jason DeWitt
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, March 25, 2002 10:26
PM<BR><B>To:</B> [EMAIL PROTECTED]<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [brluglist]
Mandrake 8.2 letdowns...<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>>> 1. The default install on my system
took
a while (approx 45 minutes) as compared to 8.0 which took considerably
less.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It went pretty quick for me, I've got a Celeron
550 with 448 ram. Actually it was faster than 8.0 or 8.1</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>>> 2. The install did not allow me the
option of not installing the bootloader (perhaps because I chose
recommended?)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've done both an expert (I usually choose this
one) and a recommended install, on the expert it will let you customize the
bootloader all you want.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>>> 3. The install didn't allow me to set
up
x the way I wanted to... (maybe for the same reason)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Right. =)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>>> 4. Booting up seemed much slower than
usual. ( I use loadlin from a dos boot....fast)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does yours load Aurora (the pretty start
up) on startup? Mine is and this version seems alot slower than previous
versions.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>>> 5. Upon booting my system and logging
in
for the first time, I was confronted by the "Mandrake First Time Wizard"
which
pretty much prevented K from loading properly (i.e. up popped an app
that bugged me for personal information - my system did not respond at
all to key-board input, so I was locked out)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The first time wizard would be pretty cool, *if*
I was a first-timer. =) I usually just select my desktop and then hit
cancel. Sometimes I just go ahead and make my .xinitrc and set it for
my
preferred desktop, but it seems to not like it if you don't let that wizard
choose one first, then manually set it how you want it.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>>> 6. Getting into the second time worked;
I discovered that the install program had misconfigured the audio (yamaha
on-board) despite having detected and reported it correctly.
(really no beg deal, I've never had this actually work...much less detect
properly...)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Soundcards suck almost as much as modems.
=)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>>> 7. K would take an eternity to launch
an
app. (5 to 15 seconds...) </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Doesn't it always? ;-)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>>> Has anyone else experiemented with
8.2?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've installed it twice I think. The only
problem is that I've yet to get the nvidia drivers to install right. Do they
come installed by default? I don't get the nvidia logo when I start X but
some
stuff seems accellerated. I've always compiled them from source, but I think
I
will try the rpms this time.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Jason</FONT></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>
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