Are you asking for help or just a sympathetic ear? If the second, please
accept my sympathy for your misfortunes. If the first, you need to back up a
bit and tell us enough that we have a chance of offering some intelligent
advice.
TurboLinux users aren't common on this list, I don't believe ... if I'm
mistaken, I'm sure they will pop up with some useful advice ... but assuming
I'm right, let me suggest you tell us some details that might let us non-TL
users (this crowd seems to be a mix of RH, Slackware, and Debian, probably
in that order) make some intelligent suggestions.
First, are you stuck in X or can you get to a command-line console? Try
pressing ALT-CRTL-F1 through CTRL-ALT-F6 and see if any of them moves you to
a command line display. If so, this will give you the ability to run
commands like "man" without the X craziness you are seeing.
Second, if you want help with X, you need to tell us your video adaptor, as
well as which X server you are using and what version of X. Your monitor is
unusual enough --- I've never even *heard of* a 27" monitor that connects to
Intel hardware -- that you might include details about it as well (hsync and
vsync rates, at the least). My usual solution to X zaniness is to suggest a
reconfiguration of X using the app xf86config ... I don't know which of the
fancier configurators TurboLinux uses during installation, but it sounds
like it was unable to cope with your equipment.
Problems with X installation could be the cause of the visual slowness you
describe as well ... once you get to the command line, you might see how
slow or fast the system is with X out of the way. You might also check
whether the system is correctly seeing and using all 128 megs of RAM (check
this with "free") or if there is some high-cpu-usage app running in the
background (check this with "top").
I don't know what window manager &/or desktop environment TL installs. Have
you tried different ones? Might there be a configuration problem at that
level? (I recently tried installing Enlightenment without Gnome ... whew!
what a mess!)
As to installing packages ... how were you trying to install them? If your X
display is a mess, how sure are you that you marked what you think you did?
I believe TL is another of the distrbutions that uses the Red Hat .rpm
format. Have you tried installing and using the stock rpm utilities?
Finally, what version of TL are you running, with what kernel version? If it
is a purchased, "full" version, as the end of your message seems to suggest
("conventional wisdom says you get what you pay for, ......not this time"),
does TL's tech support offer any assistance?
At the risk of drawing some flak, I've heard a lot of complaints about
TurboLinux from people in my local LUG. I've never tried it myself, though,
so can offer no firsthand opinion. But have you considered trying a
different distribution?
PS - I've been trying to find the origin of that closing quote for months;
it's not in the usual references like Bartlett's. Where did Wilde say it?
At 07:57 PM 11/21/99 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hey,
> I tried to manually install man pages using turbo packages, but when I
>selected the packages, the status reporting line said "0 packages selected at 0
>KB" even though I had the (*) set by the packages that I wanted to install
>manually. I did this twice without success. Also that clock and pine taskbar in
>the lower left of the desktop is always in the way of the command line window,
>obscuring what is there, any one know how to move it? In their absence, I can't
>RTM.
>The entire distribution runs as slow as molasses on my Cyrix 333, 128 meg.
>Refresh rates when dragging things around the desktop remind me of a TI 99A if
>anyone can remember that far back. I have a 27" Hitachi monitor, and I have
lost
>the
>top 4' of the screen , there is a black band there that contains nothing...
once
>again I can't RTM, Icons are real cheesy looking, popups are slow to appear,
>where is that vaunted speed that Linux is supposed to have? I'm not real
>impressed, conventional wisdom says you get what you pay for, ......not this
>time.
>
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>Never ascribe to malice that which can be
>adequately explained by ignorance--
>Osacr Wilde
>
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------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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