Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5100 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Matt Jurcich wrote:
> I would say upgrading definately gives you a system that is slower then
> a fresh install.  I did an upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1 and YAST would take
> like 10 seconds to open.  I formatted and reinstalled fresh this
> afternoon and YAST now takes 2-3 bounces of the mouse cursor--much
> better. 
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> My latop is a IBM Thinkpad X31 with PM-1.4GHz and 768MB RAM, 5400 40gb
> HD.  Runs very nicely on it since I reinstalled-was a dog with just the
> upgrade.  All my hardware works, too, right out of the box! 
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> -m 
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> > > > Thom Nuzum <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> 06/29 5:39 pm >>> 
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> > Well, that's certainly not true for all hardware.  I've got a 300MHz
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> PII 
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> > laptop that ran fairly well with 8.2.  Its performance under 9.0 was,
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> > say the least, abysmal.  I was beginning to think it had finally
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> > the end of its usefullness as my desktop for work, unless I wanted to 
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> > stick with 8.2.  Then I installed 9.1 on it and, boy howdee, it runs 
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> > great again.  In fact, it feels faster than 8.2. 
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> > Steve 
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> Same here. 9.1 on my dual boot laptop has been a success compared to
> 9.0: 
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> only exception is the touchpad not working, though I gave up on that and
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> prefer a mouse anyway. 
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It works fine on my ThinkPad and the Trackpoint "mouse" works fine, 
after adding a kernel parameter.