Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

[Cristian Rodriguez <judas_iscariote@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jonathan Lutz escribió:
> The installation of RC1 went very well.. very smooth. I quite like the 
> aesthetic of everything thus far.
>
> Two concerns however:
> 1 - Performance is pretty poor compared to my Windows 2000 partition on the 
> very same box. By 'performance' I am largely referring to load times in 
> Gnome.. Firefox for example takes at least twice as long to load. :| Is 
> there any way to improve this? Am I doing something wrong?
> 2 - The right side of my screen is 'chopped off' by several mm. Is there a 
> way to correct this software wise or am I stuck adjusting my monitor 
> settings each time I boot into linux? 
>
> The machine is 1.3ghz with ~800mb RAM.
>
> JON

maybe an IDE performance problem
what reports:

hdparm -i /dev/hda

hdparm /dev/hda

(if disk is IDE)