On Thursday 07 December 2000 11:54 pm, you wrote: > > I decided to go clean install and get a fully 7.2 system. I had a 90%+ 7.2 > system before that I had hand-upgraded but some problems occured that I > couldn't define enough to fix and went with a clean slate. > > Now that I have finished installing 7.2, there are a few problems that did > not exist before. First off, the system is incredibly slow. I have an > Athlon 700 and 256MB Ram yet when I start anything, a konsole, kmail, > whatever, it takes FOREVER for it to start. Before the new install, > everything was very quick. It is not aRTs - it is set at 'comfortable' > which is the same as it was before the new install. > > The other problem is fonts and appearance. Whew, my screen looks ugly now > that I have installed 7.2 completely. I am using XFree86-4.0.1, 1024x768 > 16 bit colors, just like before, but my fonts are blocky and ugly. They > weren't before the upgrade/install. Many fonts, though listed in the font > manager, do not display when selected either. Though their names are > there, only a small fraction of them display examples when I select them. > > I have never come across these problems before with ANY install of linux so > I do not know what to do now. Any pointers or suggestions out there? > > praedor Did you format your hard drive in the fresh install to remove all of the old files that were updated and messed up?
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