Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2234 mails)

[bshelton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Brad Shelton)]

On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 04:49:20PM -0700, Mike Payson wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Mike Payson wrote:
> > 
> > > Still no luck solving this problem. I tried recompiling the kernel, but
> > > after ~8 hours of compiling time (on a P200 w/64mb) I got an error stating
> > > the kernel was too large... Arrggghhh!!!! The system doesn't seem to slow
> > > at the command line. Only in KDE is there a noticeable slowdown.
> > > Unfortunately, I'm not sure if that's just because the CLI is inherently
> > > faster, or it's due to a problem with K.
> 
> Ok, I finally figured out what the problem was. My first impulse had
> been that the system was slow at the console as well as in X. Further
> experimentation showed that it was actually fine until I launched X, so
> that narrowed the scope of the search considerably. Upon
> experimentation, I discovered that the newest version of the SVGA server
> was incompatible with my hardware. Going back to version 3.3.1 solved
> the problem. 
> 
> Thanks for everyone's suggestions!

Ah.. just glad you finally figured it out.

Let's face it. It's always much less stressful to go through a dark alley
with a few friends along.  `*8>


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