[olug] Ubuntu 8.10 RC X.Org Resolution problems

[T. J. Brumfield]

I would check out "top" and see what processes are dragging down your system.

Also, have you updated to the latest packages, or are you running what
came with the install DVD?

-- T. J.

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Amy Mason <amason80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> TJ. I shall, I appreciate the thought, and assistance already provided.  I
> will see what I can do to make this puppy walk instead of crawl.. It's
> having a hard time just keeping up with my keyboarding in Firefox, and took
> about 20 seconds to allow me to enter my user name and password on gmail
> even though the page had been loaded for quite a while.  Go figure huh?
> Anyway, I should be doing homework, so off I go for now, but thanks again.
>
> Amy
>
> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 8:36 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I'm sorry it is sluggish for you.  You can go into Yast and disable a
>> few things like the Firewall and AppArmor if you're not too worried
>> about security.  When I wipe people's Windows boxes I generally find
>> openSUSE to be faster than XP.
>>
>> If you have any openSUSE specific questions, just let me known.  It's
>> my distro du jour.
>>
>> -- T. J.
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Amy Mason <amason80 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > * *I tried the Nvidia beta drivers, but I just got fed up. I was finally
>> > able to get 1024x768 resolution, (My native is 1440x900).  If it had
>> worked
>> > I would have been happy, but it was unstable and would cause x to restart
>> > about every 20 minutes.  There were a lot of problems with strange
>> artifacts
>> > on the screen or missing text that would show after I moused over an
>> area.
>> > In the end, I maybe could have fixed some of it, but it just wasn't worth
>> > that much hassle.  I am trying OpenSUSE, which is beautiful, but so far
>> > very, very sluggish, so we will see what there is to see. Wish me luck as
>> I
>> > continue to blunder blindly into this little Linux experiment.  I am
>> going
>> > to try to use it more and more for daily use, but, most of my data is on
>> the
>> > windows box for now. (bigger HDD)
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