Which type of install did you do? Try opening konsole and issuing the command
'top'. That will give you a list of things that are running in the background.
Write back with an update, k?
Mike
Nathaniel Gleicher wrote:
> I've just installed Mandrake 7.0, and although it's mostly working, I'm
> having a few problems of varying degrees of seriousness... if anyone
> could help, or give me a suggestion, that would be much appreciated:
> *just as a note, I've got a pentium 3 with one hard-drive for windows
> 98 and another for linux, so both operating systems are on their own
> drive...
> The most noticeable affect that installing madnrake has had has been
> that windows now runs quite slowly on certain tasks. Upon boot-up, the
> computer freezes for about 45 secs before continuing. Also, when trying
> to do things like play a music cd, there is a 30 second pause between
> each song... One thing that I have noticed is that when opening explorer
> in windows, my D drive (the one with linux installed) is beign
> recognized as a cd drive... Could this be causing my slowing down? most
> of the times it freezes could be when it is accessing the cd drive... Is
> there any way for me to fix windows so that it does not even pay
> attention to the other hard-drive, or something of that sort? I've been
> playing around with settings, but haven't seen anything...
>
> My other problems are with linux, and not quite as frustrating. First,
> I have been unable to connect to the internet using an ethernet
> connection... if someone could point me to a good howto/faq on this
> topic, I should be able to figure it out myself. I've been setting a
> number of different bvariables in linuxconf, but I think I'm missing or
> misreading something...
> Also, I can't get my soundcard recognized... this, however, is due
> largely to the fact that I haven't figured out how to run the sound
> config utility yet...
>
> that's about it... thanks very much for any help
> ~Nathaniel :)
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