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I forgot, my XYL is a ham too.... I need to remind her to bring home some
609's.....
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Leche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 10:37 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [brluglist] Mandrake 8.2 letdowns...
"XYL",?, Craig are you a ham?
Bob "KB5DGI"
"Banker, Craig" wrote:
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] <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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Robert Leche
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Louisiana State University - Southern Regional Climate Center
260 Howe-Russell Building
Baton Rouge, La. 70803
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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<DIV><SPAN class=993411517-26032002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
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609's.....</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> Robert Leche
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, March 26, 2002
10:37 AM<BR><B>To:</B> [EMAIL PROTECTED]<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [brluglist]
Mandrake 8.2 letdowns...<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>"XYL",?, Craig are you a ham?
<P>Bob "KB5DGI"
<P>"Banker, Craig" wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE">
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<SPAN class=972260714-26032002><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=-1>Ya...ya..ya brag on your fast machine. </SPAN><SPAN
class=972260714-26032002>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....</SPAN><SPAN class=972260714-26032002></SPAN><SPAN
class=972260714-26032002>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. </SPAN><SPAN class=972260714-26032002></SPAN><SPAN
class=972260714-26032002>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></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=972260714-26032002></SPAN><SPAN class=972260714-26032002></SPAN>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT
size=-1>-----Original Message-----</FONT></FONT> <BR><FONT
face=Tahoma><FONT size=-1><B>From:</B> Jason DeWitt [<A
href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">mailto:[EMAIL
PROTECTED]</A>]</FONT></FONT>
<BR><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=-1><B>Sent:</B> Monday, March 25, 2002
10:26 PM</FONT></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=-1><B>To:</B>
[EMAIL PROTECTED]</FONT></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT
size=-1><B>Subject:</B> Re: [brluglist] Mandrake 8.2
letdowns...</FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-1>>> 1.
The default install on my system took a while (approx 45 minutes) as
compared to 8.0 which took considerably less.</FONT></FONT> <FONT
face=Arial><FONT size=-1>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></FONT>
<FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-1>>> 2. The install did not allow me
the option of not installing the bootloader (perhaps because I chose
recommended?)</FONT></FONT> <FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-1>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></FONT> <FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-1>>> 3. The
install
didn't allow me to set up x the way I wanted to... (maybe for the same
reason)</FONT></FONT> <FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-1>Right.
=)</FONT></FONT> <FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-1>>> 4. Booting up
seemed much slower than usual. ( I use loadlin from a dos
boot....fast)</FONT></FONT> <FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-1>Does yours
load
Aurora (the pretty start up) on startup? Mine is and this version seems
alot slower than previous versions.</FONT></FONT> <FONT face=Arial><FONT
size=-1>>> 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></FONT> <FONT
face=Arial><FONT
size=-1>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></FONT> <FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-1>>> 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></FONT> <FONT
face=Arial><FONT size=-1>Soundcards suck almost as much as modems.
=)</FONT></FONT> <FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-1>>> 7. K would take
an eternity to launch an app. (5 to 15 seconds...)Doesn't it always?
;-)</FONT></FONT> <FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-1>>> Has anyone else
experiemented with 8.2?</FONT></FONT> <FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-1>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></FONT> <FONT face=Arial><FONT
size=-1>Jason</FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><PRE>--
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260 Howe-Russell Building
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
225 578 5023
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