Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-12-04 Thread civileme
e the memory, even > if it is there. I bet my problem is the VIA chipset support in the kernel > > - Original Message - > From: "Matthew Micene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, Novembe

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-12-04 Thread Buchan Milne
Please try to only quote the most important part of previous postings, your last mesage on this thread had about 12k of quoted material which you did not even refer/reply to. Some users read their mail on slow connections, it is onlt courteous not to increase the amount of junk they receive. Buc

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-12-03 Thread Mark Weaver
t; > -Original Message- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Christian A > > > Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno] > > > Sent: Thursday, 30 November, 2000 16:40 > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Cc: Larry To

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-12-03 Thread Mark Weaver
th Linux, but if preponderance of > > >evidence is helpful at all, I also have a VIA chipset, and Mandrake 7 hasn't found my >RAM above 64MB... > > > > > > > > - Av - > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Av Pinzur / Crisp Graphics > > >

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-12-03 Thread Mark Weaver
t; > > > -- > > > Av Pinzur / Crisp Graphics > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://www.crispgraphics.com/~newav > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-12-01 Thread Michael Powell PhD
risp Graphics > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.crispgraphics.com/~newav > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Christian A > > Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno] > > Sent: Thursday, 30 November, 2000 16:

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-12-01 Thread EagleIce
I'm sorry too because I have to disagree with you Pj! But first: thank's for the notes on hardware, it is very easy to forget that there can in fact be some small details in the hardware that makes one desperate and sweaty trying to configure a system, this could save some people from going ma

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-11-30 Thread Pj
Tom, Just for the sake of a good discussion, I said "common reasons." There are of course exceptions. The board and RAM I just replaced is a good example. The RAM was recognized in both Windows and Linux, yet 90MB of the 160MB were bad. It was sporadic. When it worked it was great but when it di

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-11-30 Thread Tom Berkley
> > > > > > - Av - > > > > > > -- > > > Av Pinzur / Crisp Graphics > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://www.crispgraphics.com/~newav > > > > > > > -----Original Message- > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] &

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-11-30 Thread Anthony Russello
; [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Christian A > > > Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno] > > > Sent: Thursday, 30 November, 2000 16:40 > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Cc: Larry Tobos > > > Subject: Re: [expert] Slow system > > > >

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-11-30 Thread Pj
ailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Christian A > > > Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno] > > > Sent: Thursday, 30 November, 2000 16:40 > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Cc: Larry Tobos > > > Subject: Re: [expert] Slow system > > > > > > On Thurs

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-11-30 Thread Sarang Lakare
Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Christian A > > Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno] > > Sent: Thursday, 30 November, 2000 16:40 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: Larry Tobos > > Subject: Re: [expert] Slow sys

RE: [expert] Slow system

2000-11-30 Thread Anthony Russello
gt; -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Christian A > > Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno] > > Sent: Thursday, 30 November, 2000 16:40 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: Larry Tobos > > Subject: Re: [expert] Slo

RE: [expert] Slow system

2000-11-30 Thread Abraham Pinzur
ginal Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Christian A > Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno] > Sent: Thursday, 30 November, 2000 16:40 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Larry Tobos > Subject: Re: [expert] Slow system > > > On Thursday 30 Nov

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-11-30 Thread Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno]
On Thursday 30 November 2000 21:39, you wrote: > In my case, Winblows gets the correct amount of memory... > Forcing the detection in Lilo as suggested had the impact of freezing the > system, until I reverted it ... > > The problem is hardware related: the kernel does not see the memory, even > i

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-11-30 Thread Larry Tobos
support in the kernel - Original Message - From: "Matthew Micene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 10:50 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Slow system > On Wednesday 29 November 2000 11:36 am, you wrote:

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-11-29 Thread Sarang Lakare
My KDE 2.0 + XF4.0.1 system (LM 7.2 obv.) takes up just 47 MB when I start.. and then goes up to around 90 when I open up a lot of stuff.. thats okish i guess. -sarang On Wednesday 29 November 2000 10:50, you wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 November 2000 11:36 am, you wrote: > > hmm.. seems like t

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-11-29 Thread Scott Walker
Scott Walker/MTL/BAM/ActiMedia) Subject: Re: [expert] Slow system Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno] said at ÒRe: [expert] Slow systemÓ. [2000-11-29 17:36] > On Wednesday 29 November 2000 16:02, you wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 November 2000 10:07 am, you wrote: > > > >

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-11-29 Thread Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno]
On Wednesday 29 November 2000 17:52, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > hmm.. seems like that the kernel only thinks it has 64M ram, but adding > > append="mem=256M" to lilo just makes it freeze after bootup, had to > > remove > > mmm would not your mobo have an i810 or i815 (or in general, it has an > on-b

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-11-29 Thread J.A. Magallon
Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno] said at ÒRe: [expert] Slow systemÓ. [2000-11-29 17:36] > On Wednesday 29 November 2000 16:02, you wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 November 2000 10:07 am, you wrote: > > > > Installed Mandrake 7.2 on my friends computer (AMD Duron 700 with > 256mb > > > > > > ra

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-11-29 Thread Matthew Micene
On Wednesday 29 November 2000 11:36 am, you wrote: > hmm.. seems like that the kernel only thinks it has 64M ram, but adding > append="mem=256M" to lilo just makes it freeze after bootup, had to > remove this earlier because of that error. This might be my problem, > but still, shouldn't X with

Re: [expert] Slow system

2000-11-29 Thread Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno]
On Wednesday 29 November 2000 16:02, you wrote: > On Wednesday 29 November 2000 10:07 am, you wrote: > > > Installed Mandrake 7.2 on my friends computer (AMD Duron 700 with 256mb > > > > ram and a 30G 7200rpm ide disk), but everything seems to be going > > terribly slow. Recompiling the kernel too

[expert] Slow system

2000-11-29 Thread Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno]
Installed Mandrake 7.2 on my friends computer (AMD Duron 700 with 256mb ram and a 30G 7200rpm ide disk), but everything seems to be going terribly slow. Recompiling the kernel took about 8 hours, running X and even the light wmanager blackbox runs terribly slow. Anybody have any clue what mig