Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4208 mails)

["Larry Johnson KISE" <ljohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My tale of woe…

I upgraded from SuSE 8.2 to 9.0 (workstation desktop) and found my boot time
went from 1-2 minutes to 2-3 minutes, and produced a lot of boot time error
messages.  I had upgraded (vice clean install) because I had gotten my
Matrox G450 card working with dual monitors on 8.2 and didn't want to hassle
getting them to work with 9.0.

Well I got tired of the long boot and worrying about all the error messages,
and did a clean install of 9.0.

Boot times went to over 10 minutes.  Window2K Pro boots from Grub to Logon
in about 60 seconds (of course after logon there's about 2-3 minutes before
you can actually do anything).

WOW.  So I went through the documentation, mailing lists archives, net
search and by doing a few things got the boot time to just over seven
minutes (GRUB boot selection to KDE logon).  I even asked SuSE.

This pretty much eliminates SuSE desktop from any kind of useful work for
me, especially with the other problems I'm having with 9.0.

I don't think there is anything unusual about the hardware, except possibly
Plantronics USB headset and the dual monitor Matrox - and even possibly the
HP scanner or AMD processor.

I've used SuSE 7.2,7.3,8.0 and 8.2 on the same system without any boot time
problems.  I've also got three SuSE Intel servers and one old Redhat server
running - but this workstation/Desktop stuff has me going crazy.

I would really, really like to get a workstation/Linux desktop up to where I
could rely on it for useful work - but at this point I feel SuSE is not
going to be able to support that (at least for me).  Too much stuff doesn't
work.

I would appreciate any ideas and suggestions about this.

Larry Johnson, KeepItSimpleEngineering,Inc.

P.S. Some good things about 9.0 - Grub works great, and the Matrox
DualHead/dual monitors work great after you get them configured correctly.