Steve,
Larry Marshall says that another 64MB RAM will not improve S.O. or printer
performance much on my setup (described in my original query below). Still, I'm
prepared to try it if there's no other way. Also, I'd try KOffice if I knew
where to locate it, and felt I had any chance of making a successful install. As
a possible alternative to KOffice, I'm also thinking of dumping S.O. and trying
Corel WordPerfect for Linux. Any hope for that? If anyone else out there has a
suggestion for a (MS Word compatible?) word processor I can use along with
Mandrake, please let me know. Meanwhile, Steve (or anyone else), if you can let
me know where I could lay my hands on KOffice, I'd appreciate it.
I note also that impractically slow printer and word processing performance
doesn't occur much as a problem on this help list. What are people using their
Linux-Mandrake for? Or does everyone but me have a Pentium III, 800Mhz, with a
gazillion MB's of RAM? I really am amazed that I'm having so much trouble
getting a simple desktop setup together and running when my requirements are so
completely basic. I was weeks getting my modem/internet connection straightened
out, and now this. Oh well, I'm learning tons, and I do have my Microsoft setup
to fall back on. What an irony given that I started all this to get clear of
Bill Gates and his Bandits!
Regards,
Fabian
Steve Weltman wrote:
> Fabian,
>
> StarOffice is a resource hog. If you aren't running a P3 600+ with like
> 128MB RAM, it's slow. It's NOT Linux's system (well, the O/S anyhow).
> Please try a test...Use the KOffice products for a bit. Let me know if this
> is faster than before (I don't have access to a printer at the moment, but I
> have had lots of time to fiddle with SOffice 5.2, and it's slower than
> molasses in January, even on my system... P2/300, 96MB, 2MB VRAM laptop).
>
> As for the printing, all sounds correct. It should be a little faster than
> that, but it's a little slower than windows with some inkjet machines for
> some reason (I have no info why).
>
> Steve W.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fabian Jennings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 2:16 PM
> Subject: [newbie] slow printer performance
>
> > I have a PC pentium 233 with 32MB RAM, and am dual booting
> > between Linux-Mandrake 7.1 and Win 95. My printer is an HP
> > Deskjet 870Cxi. Under Windows, it prints as expected - 4 to
> > 5 pages of black and white text per minute, or thereabouts.
> > Under Linux-Mandrake, however, it prints at about one fifth
> > that speed. Mandrake recognizes my printer as a series 870C,
> >
> > and lists a driver for it. I configured accordingly, both
> > using printtool and DrakConf. I am quite confident that I
> > entered all the configuaration info correctly. As I said, it
> > does print
> > under Mandrake. Also, it runs off the ASCII test page
> > without a
> > hitch. But when I go back to the KDE desktop and print a
> > text document from one of my StarOffice 5.2 files or an
> > email from Netscape, for example, it prints woefully slowly.
> >
> > I have gone back to both printtool and Drakconfig to change
> > the print filter, choosing other HP Deskjet drivers listed,
> > but that has not made any difference. Has anybody got any
> > idea what could be wrong and how to fix it? I'll also
> > mention that moving around with the mouse on my KDE
> > desktop is quick and responsive, but bringing up StarOffice
> > and moving around on the StarOffice desktop are slow and
> > tedious; i.e., like the printer performance. Star Office
> > takes about three or four minutes to appear after I click on
> >
> > it, and the same for a new document page, once I'm there.I'm
> >
> > throwing this in, not to double up on problems, but because
> > I'm wondering if there could be any connection?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Fabian
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
