Re: Video player and office suite

Open Office sure is fine, but I've had problems with Xine and avi... some avi's can't be played well with it, it drops lots of frames... In my windows box same avi-file plays fine even on full-screen. Anyone any ideas how to improve performance on playing avi-files.. Also some mpeg-don't

Re: filetypes and executing...

Anthony E. Greene wrote: 20020708214301.C22730@cp5340">-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1On 08-Jul-2002/20:41 +0500, Petri Somerkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a file that has an extension .bin and I can execute it. By just typing its name. I have changend permissions of that

Re: ntfs partition mounting

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How do I mount an ntfs partition in redhat 7.3? I get mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel? how do i go about configuring my kernel with ntfs support? Thanks for your time Alex ___ Redhat-list mailing list

loopback devices kernel compile..

Tried compiling kernel.. all going well until after mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.18.img 2.4.18-3custom got announced that: All of your loopback devices are in use ! What to do ? Pete ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: redhat 7.3 and performance

Been a little busy with system designing at work (you know deadlines)... later today continue with red hat... I'll keep you busy with questins as soon as I get back home =) PETE Mike Martin wrote: How are you getting on Had any joy __ Do You

Re: redhat 7.3 and performance

Mike Martin wrote: RH do not put NTFS support into the kernel as standard and debugging is turned on in the kernel (at least on mine) Do this first check devel packages for kernel is installed ls /usr/src you should see an entry like linux-2.4.18-3 If so cd /usr/src/linux-2.4 so far now

Re: redhat 7.3 and performance

I am talking about memory here, it sure looks big. I have 128 MB. What sort of network problem ? Any ideas how to find out what is problem, and possibly get rif of ? I have also mounting problem nags about kernel not supporting ntfs -filesystem, is this true... I'd like to use some files

Re: redhat 7.3 and performance

Ok mozilla has a turbo option (somewhere in prefs - cant remember wherewhere) which preloads moz into memory ala ie which will cut start up times Did you try gnome (sorry a bit of a gnome zealot) if so was there a difference If I remember right this is a known problem with kde with

Re: redhat 7.3 and performance

Mike Martin wrote: --- Petri Somerkari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Talkington wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Petri Somerkari wrote: Booting still takes minutes and even opening applications like terminal or mozilla takes nearly 1 minute. This smells of a networking

Re: redhat 7.3 and performance

Mike Martin wrote: --- Petri Somerkari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Martin wrote: --- Petri Somerkari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Talkington wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Petri Somerkari wrote: Booting still takes minutes and even opening applications like

Re: redhat 7.3 and performance

Ezra Nugroho wrote: When you are firing things, run 'top' on the side. See what eats your processing power the most. Then we may be able to tell you more. KDE does have some problem with it's arts daemon. Sometime it eats 80 - 100% processing power, if it hangs. We have many celeron 433,

Re: redhat 7.3 and performance

Ok mozilla has a turbo option (somewhere in prefs - cant remember wherewhere) which preloads moz into memory ala ie which will cut start up times Did you try gnome (sorry a bit of a gnome zealot) if so was there a difference If I remember right this is a known problem with kde with

redhat 7.3 and performance

I installed red hat 7.3 on laptop previously running WinXP and I must admit i am dissapointed on red hat's performance. Installtion was easy and went well, but using this OS is not effective.. Booting takes minutes to login screen, and starting from there to desktop takes minutes again.

Re: redhat 7.3 and performance

. thanks, trying gnome in 2h 5minutes. P. Mike Martin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> --- Petri Somerkari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installedred hat 7.3 on laptop previously running WinXP and I must admit i am dissapointed on red hat's performance. Installtion waseasy and w

Re: redhat 7.3 and performance

Matthew Boeckman wrote: Is gnome perhaps lighter than KDE. IMHO, if you really want a screaming fast desktop drop both Gnome and KDE for WindowMaker (www.windowmaker.org) or other lightweight windows manager. ___ Redhat-list mailing list

Re: redhat 7.3 and performance

David Talkington wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duane Clark wrote: The case is not that I want screaming fast desktop, but I feel I want at least something that is as fast as ms-winXP. At the moment RedHat is not coming close to that. Booting still takes minutes and even

Re: redhat 7.3 and performance

David Talkington wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Petri Somerkari wrote: Booting still takes minutes and even opening applications like terminal or mozilla takes nearly 1 minute. This smells of a networking problem. Make sure your IP address and hostname are in /etc/hosts