On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Insomniac <insomniac@toast2.net> wrote:
I'm trying to eliminate the problems I've been having with my system lately. Because they happened 'suddenly', as in overnight, I'm now thinking hardware. I took out my SB Live! card and my GeForce GT210 PCIe card and now I'm >actually able to type without it looking like I couldn't even spell the word 'I'. No >more problem(s) with the letters keeping up with my typing or jumping ahead or >adding 2 and 3 characters (which made it almost impossible to type in my root >password when I needed to get into YAST).
Anyway, onto the subject...the kernel that's installed on my (this) stock install is the kernel 'desktop'. Of all the kernels that are listed (desktop, coverage, default, rt, PAE, ec2, trace, vanilla), which would actually be the best for my system? I use this thing as my music player (got me some really, really nice 500W 5.1 speakers), watching DVD's, experimenting with software (nothing fancy, just if it looks interesting I'll try it. If it doesn't work I uninstall it.), just an everyday user I guess, no huge scientific stuff or graphics work (other than BOINC SETI@home...I run this 24/7/365).
The Desktop kernel has PAE enabled. The Desktop kernel is supposed to have better responsiveness and should work fine for most 32bit installs on hardware that supports the XD/NX bit. I run the standard kernel on older machines like Pentium 3's because the desktop kernel wasn't as stable(but this is with 11.0 so I haven't tested the newer ones). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org