-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Aniruddha Shankar wrote: > Usha wrote: >> Hi, >> I am not very familiar with gnu/linux. But, I used to run an earlier >> version of ubuntu and i was happy with it. > >> Recenlty, I bought a new computer (SATA hard disk, AMD-64 bit, My main >> board is ASUS A8-VM). > >> On this system I installed the new ubuntu edgy (32 bit). I had no >> problems during the installation. But now, everything is really slow >> and it takes minutes to scroll up a page. Assuming the problem could >> be with GNOME, I tried running KDE and found that it was still slow. > >> Please Help! >> Thanks!! > > I recommend that you do *not* use the 64bit version of Edgy if you want > to view things like webpages with flash - the last time I tried to do > so, I ran into several problems. In any case, the system you mention > should not be slow at all as I have an AMD64 based system with PATA hard > drives that is not slow at all. > > My guess would be: > > a) the SATA hard drives are not being recognised properly or DMA on them > is not enabled. > b) there is some other low-level hardware configuration error. > > > to find out what the problems is, you should report the following > information to us. All commands should be run from the console. > > 1. Information about your hardware: > > $ sudo lspci -v > > 2. Information about how Ubuntu has recognised your hardware: > > $ sudo dmesg > > 3. Information about your CPU > > $ sudo cat /proc/cpuinfo > > 4. Information about your hard disk > > $ sudo apt-get install smartmontools > $ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda (replace sda with the name of your hard > disk, if appropriate) > > 5. Information about how your disk is partitioned > > $ sudo fdisk -l > > 6. Information about your BIOS > > $ sudo dmidecode > > cheers, > > Aniruddha Shankar Oh, and forgot this one:
7. information about whether DMA is activated on your hard disk $ sudo hdparm -i /dev/hda $ sudo hdparm /dev/hda -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFq3othJkrd6A3rSsRAub2AKC7pWuXnGChm4Kbya/WWSNhyzP78wCfQVjS 2Z40RqVpQD76oq/cQyRo4Ek= =cPYJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
