[SOLVED] (kinda): fedora 20 box so slow to be unusable

2015-06-05 Thread M. Fioretti
the person using that computer tells me that, after I told him to try Mate or Cinnamon WITHOUT "software acceleration" the computer started to behave decently. So the issue is closed, so to speak. Still, I'd like to know more about how to handle such analyses automatically. For now, thanks to al

Re: fedora 20 box so slow to be unusable

2015-05-28 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2015-05-28 14:43, Dan Mossor wrote: Well, one way to check if it is indeed the video driver is to stop the service utilizing it. issue 'systemctl stop kdm' from your ssh session (or sddm if you've switched it to that, kdm was still default in F20). This will stop the desktop processes and dro

Re: fedora 20 box so slow to be unusable

2015-05-28 Thread Dan Mossor
On 05/28/2015 04:03 AM, M. Fioretti wrote: On 2015-05-28 08:37, Gilboa Davara wrote: Most likely you're using software acceleration (due to poorly supported [by F20] graphics card) with a heavy desktop environment (E.g. GNOME 3). Thanks Gilboa for the quick answer. As I understand it, the beh

Re: fedora 20 box so slow to be unusable

2015-05-28 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2015-05-28 08:37, Gilboa Davara wrote: Most likely you're using software acceleration (due to poorly supported [by F20] graphics card) with a heavy desktop environment (E.g. GNOME 3). Thanks Gilboa for the quick answer. As I understand it, the behavior I reported is the SAME with any deskto

Re: fedora 20 box so slow to be unusable

2015-05-27 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 9:26 AM, M. Fioretti wrote: > Greetings, > > I have come across a computer running Fedora 20 X86_64 that is > basically unusable. I would really appreciate your help to: > > 1) figure out and fix the current problem (including: would >installing fedora 22 help or make t

fedora 20 box so slow to be unusable

2015-05-27 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, I have come across a computer running Fedora 20 X86_64 that is basically unusable. I would really appreciate your help to: 1) figure out and fix the current problem (including: would installing fedora 22 help or make things worse because of dropped support for some hw component, et