On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:16:32 -1000 kanenas@hawaii.rr.com wrote:
perfectly acceptable! the problem is that the laptop is an aged hp job, the model is an hp pavilion, ze1000 series, with an 80gb hard drive, 512mb ram and an amd xp-1500+ cpu. presently, the laptop is a dual boot setup, 32 bit suse 10.3 is the default, windoze xp is the other choice in the grub menu. all that will be wiped out for the *one* os to be freshly installed. Currently, the standard 10.3 suse feels *a lot more sluggish* on the laptop than the xp and no, it is not beagle, the dreaded dog was never allowed in the system at install! so, i am asking for help in installing a fast suse system.
I would upgrade memory, too. With the data from the "service tag" (S/N, P/N, Model) you can check at hp.com the possibilities. Usually this model allows up to 2 GB RAM distributed on two memory slots. At hp.com you could find an advice to change memory modules by yourself, too. Another important thing is the video interface and its driver. If you have installed frame buffer driver (which usually is the default of a Suse installation) and your laptop's video interface allows graphics acceleration you could check whether there is a OpenGL-driver and install it. A disadvantage of those drivers is that they usually consume more power. Personally I would stay at opensuse 10.2 instead of 10.3 but I have no experience with 11.0. I think 10.2 is one of the most stable Suse-versions of the last years. 10.3 has some advantages concerning simple installation of WLAN and graphics adapter but it seems to slow down the system. A disadvantage of 10.2 is that update support will end this year. -- Gruß, Tobias. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org