On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:07,
Trying very hard to put aside my anti kde4 prejudice and give 11.4 a fair chance. so i dl'd the kde live cd and booted from it. It seems that everything worked, but the striped screen with apparently different scale on adjascent stripes looks weird, is that supposed to be normal?
It's just the wallpaper that was selected for the default in 11.4. Some people like it, others don't.. some think it looks weird, others think it's artistic. It's a matter of taste... it's not a defect in the desktop.
Then I tried to click on some things like firefox and office, firefox seems to take for ever and a day to do anything.
Well... you ARE running it as a LiveCD, of course it's slow. It won't matter what Window Manager, or what distro you're using, if it needs to load something off the CD it will be limited by the speed and performance of the CD drive. On my system, it's easily 10x (probably a lot more) or more slower running off CD than locally installed. You cannot judge performance of a distro based on how it runs while loading off CD (note, I said while loading off CD... some LiveCDs allow you to do performance enhancing things like set a toram boot option) Install it on a hard drive and you'll see a very significant difference in overall performance. On my 11.4/KDE4 install, Firefox is up and running in 1 second or so... maybe less (it doesn't get a chance to bounce the icon even once between me clicking on the icon and Firefox up and running)... it's hard to actually measure it.
gb of ram, the internet connection is thru roadrunner cable, so i am not used to watching the firefox ball bouncing up / down and leaving contrails on the screen if i move the mouse. Is this due to the nouvew (sp?) driver for the 8600 nvidia card? is the general rather serious sluggishness the result of that driver? if yes, is there a way to upgrade the driver in the livecd session? if yes, can someone please help? thanks in advance,
The nouveau driver actually works quite well for most everything except high end gaming. The artifacts... probably down to the fact it's a LiveCD you're running... I've seen the artifacts you're describing (usually on a LiveCD) - but not on a full install of 11.4/KDE4 regardless of the nouveau or nVidia proprietary driver. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org