-----Original Message----- From: Kyle [mailto:doctorwhite@verizon.net] Sent: Fri 10/14/2005 6:48 PM To: Scott, John Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] System slow after upgrade to 10... Scott, John wrote:

-----Original Message----- From: ÖdönFarkas [mailto:farkas@chem.elte.hu] Sent: Thu 10/13/2005 4:46 PM To: Scott, John Cc: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: RE: [suse-amd64] System slow after upgrade to 10...

Hi,

Initally I had similar problems with SuSE 9.3 on my NX6125, however, SuSE 10 solved the "too fast clock" problem what I had to solve previously through a kernel patch. I'm surpeised that it does not work on the Acer Ferrari.

Best wishes,

Ödön

On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 13:38 -0400, Scott, John wrote:

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#-----Original Message----- #From: Kyle [mailto:doctorwhite@verizon.net] #Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 2:36 AM #To: suse-amd64@suse.com #Subject: [suse-amd64] System slow after upgrade to 10... # #Hello, # # I recently upgraded to OpenSuse 10 and my system is running very #slow. I cannot figure out why. I checked the processes with top and #did not see anything out of the ordinary or any processes #using 100% CPU #usage. Typing is very slow, startup is slow etc...what should I check? # #System: Acer Ferrari 4005 #AMD64 Turion #1 gb mem ddr400 #100 gb 5400 rpm hdd #etc... # #Kyle #

I've got an HP nx6125 with the Turion chipset, 1GB ram, and have noticed the same thing. I can't really state the whole box is slow, just the some of the X related stuff. These are slow, but tolerable only because the graphics look good. I haven't had a chance to dig around yet (it's only been up a couple of days). So, I'm going to hazard a guess about a driver (or drivers) being an issue. Specualtion: it might be the driver for the ATI X300 since what I'm experiencing is gui related. I've seen complaints about the newer ATI cards/chipsets and Linux on various lists. I'll have a chance to check it out tonight. If it turns out to be the ATI, this'll be the first and last thing I buy with an ATI if it isn't easily fixed.

John

Here's what I started noticing. The gui is not updating/refreshing the display upon an action in the browsers (pick one). Example, I click on a link and it acts like I did nothing as long as the mouse stays still. The second the mouse moves, the whole browser window changes/updates. It'll stay on the originating page as long as I don't move the mouse. I've also seen Konqueror do the same thing when just browsing the file system. Stays the same if the mouse doesn't move.

I can use alt+f2 to launch apps (like kate), type data, and the Konqueror (or other browsers) don't update if I don't move the mouse.

So, maybe the system/gui isn't really slow. Maybe the mouse driver is the real culprit and not x.org driver as I originally speculated. I changed the mouse driver from the Synaptics touchpad to a generic PS/2 mouse and all this weirdness went away. Happy now and I won't blame ATI or the x.org drivers so quickly anymore.

Now on to trying out AppArmor and some database/web dev stuff, and getting the wireless to work.

I hope this helps the OP with his problem with his Ferrari. Oohh, carbon fiber - suhhweet.

John

hey, i am not having the mouse issue as you are having...what generic mouse do u set it to? ...i still think it has to be an ATI driver issue...someone in an IRC mentioned that 3d support is messed up and thats y i am having issues... kyle I switched to a generic ps/2 mouse. As for the 3d stuff, I don't really need it for what I'm doing. The browsers not refreshing on changes was messing with me. I'd never had anything like that happen. I'll try to get the ATI driver in tonight to see how the 3d stuff goes. John