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  2. mandriva still slow after RAM upgrade

    in Hardware

    Posted

    That's not normal for your hardware IMHO. Which desktop are you running, kde or gnome? Whichever it is, try the other and see if the problem goes away. Is beagle enabled? If so disable it. Also, try running without the 3D desktop and see if the problem goes away. That might help limit down what's causing the problem.

     

    I am running KDE and I will try GNOME. I have alternated between 3D and non-3D desktop and did not see a visible difference. I also tried swiftfox instead of firefox and still didn't work. Just typing in the URL bar of mozilla causes a slowdown (it does the annoying auto-complete thing). Right now mandriva is running slower than my windows laptop.. Does the monitor size has any impact on the speed (e.g. is it a problem with displaying the images on a 22-in monitor?)

     

    Thanks for all the post thus far.

  5. VLC player can't play avi or wmv files [solved]

    in Software

    Posted

    If you have 3D desktop enabled then disable it and try again.

     

    Also try this: In terminal cd to where you have the video file and in terminal run:

     

    mplayer -vo x11 name-of-file.avi

     

    And see if that works.

     

     

    When I disabled compiz fusion 3D, the VLC player is working again - is there a way for VLC to run with 3D desktops? I am finding that this also happens with other programs (like wine) which doesn run with the 3D desktop...

  6. mandriva still slow after RAM upgrade

    in Hardware

    Posted

    The output of your free command shows no swap is used.

    In other words, you have enough ram, more wouldn't help.

    What you want is indeed to have the first line tell you that your ram is fully used, and the last line that no swap is used, in which case all is fine, ... output from my current machine:

    $ free
		 total	   used	   free	 shared	buffers	 cached
Mem:	   4052292	3853548	 198744		  0	 255472	2575444
-/+ buffers/cache:	1022632	3029660
Swap:	 10233080		148   10232932

    (Oh noes, the system ate all my ram!! )

     

    Can you check if there is some disk activity? I noticed that kerry / beagle sometimes keep the disks busy, which is a major cause of slowness.

    I normally run with gkrellm on the side, just to keep track of high cpu and disk loads (and temps and stuff..).

     

    BTW flash can make a Athlon 2400+ stutter, from what I gather also on windows, so go complain to Adobe about that one.. ;)

     

    Did you get the new version of FF? Should be in the backports repos somewhere (I'm running 2008.1 x64 on all machines now, and did get FF3 on all of them, just forgot from where I got it).

     

    Are you saying that there should be NO swap used? because my machine shows:

    total used free

    Swap: 3992 0 3992

     

    How do I know if I have the latest FF3? I install the updates regularly so I assume that it is up to date...

  7. optimal use for 3d cube desktop

    in Art And Design

    Posted

    I think I know what the misunderstanding is here. In the classic KDE desktop one has four desktops whereas with the cube there is only one desktop and four windows. So the answer to the original post is it cannot be done with the cube.

    In the classic mode the icon at the top left of the title bar does give me the option of sending a window to any of the other desktops plus some other functions. I hope this is of help.

     

     

    THank you I think thatÅ› where the misunderstanding was. I am happy with the cube desktop - was just curious to hear what others think, didnt mean to set off a heated discussion about title bars :D

  9. optimal use for 3d cube desktop

    in Art And Design

    Posted

    I answered in #3

     

    I understand what a¨ title bar¨ is - but I am saying that there is no option on the right-click menu that says move to desktop #. THere is Advanced Move Minimized Maximize Shade CLose, and Move doesnt just assign the window to a new desktop as you said. I didnt want to nitpick but there are so many responses generated regarding this....

  11. optimal use for 3d cube desktop

    in Art And Design

    Posted

    Seems no one bothered to answer you query about moving an open application to a different desktop.

     

    It is dead easy. Just right click anywhere on the title bar at the very top and a menu will drop . From it you can select from "To Desktop" which desktop you want to move it to. Easypesy.

     

    Cheers. john.

     

     

    I don t get the ¨To Desktop¨ option when I right-click on the top toolbar.....

     

    However if I keep dragging the window toward the edge of the current desktop it will cross over into the next one...

  12. mandriva still slow after RAM upgrade

    in Hardware

    Posted

    THanks for all the help - I disabled several of these entries and reduced the number of ttys. So far I havent seen a noticeable change. Firefox is continuing to stutter whenever I open a new tab or visit a flash-intensive site. Even when I srhink the firefox window there is a stutter to bring it back up again...

  13. mandriva still slow after RAM upgrade

    in Hardware

    Posted

    Did you run it as root? Use su to get root privileges first, and try again.

     

    My bad - I just realized that right after I posted. Here it is: Thanks!

     

    acpid 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

    alsa 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

    atd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

    atieventsd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:on 6:off

    avahi-daemon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off

    crond 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

    dkms 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

    dm 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:on 6:off

    fuse 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

    haldaemon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

    harddrake 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

    iptables 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

    irqbalance 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

    keytable 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

    kheader 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off

    mandi 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

    messagebus 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

    netfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

    network 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

    network-up 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

    numlock 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

    partmon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

    resolvconf 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

    shorewall 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

    sound 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

    syslog 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

    vboxadd-timesync 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off

    wine 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

  16. mandriva still slow after RAM upgrade

    in Hardware

    Posted

    Hi,

     

    I am running Mandriva 2008 on a intel celeron 2.2Ghz eMachine desktop. I have recently upgraded the RAM from 256 to 756MB, and it is running a lot smoother (installing package no longer slows the machine to a crawl). However right now I have Amorak, a mozilla firefox browser, and a bittrrent download open, and mozilla is extremely slow to the point of crashing. Also I am running the compizfusion 3D desktop. When I do a free -m I get the following:

     

     

    			 total	   used	   free	 shared	buffers	 cached
Mem:		   755		744		 11		  0		 16		359
-/+ buffers/cache:		360		394
Swap:		 3992		  0	   3992

     

    Is this normal? I can run the same number of programs on a pentium III windows VISTA laptop and it wouldnt crash. Is there one particular program that consumes the most RAM? WHen I use the ¨top¨ command, I see that amorak, X, firefox and bittorrent takes a combined amount of 35% of mem. and about 60% CPU.

     

    THanks.

  17. optimal use for 3d cube desktop

    in Art And Design

    Posted

    Haha I guess looking cool is an important aspect! Even though I dont have a use for all that real estate, it is nice to know that I have it. I am beginning to get used to the paradigm of spreading out my windows across desktops and flipping through desktops. Now I hardly shrink windows anymore - I just drag them onto the next desktop. Overall I quite like the 3D cube desktop, it is innovative and fun to use once you get use to it, and it is vastly superior to the windows aero theme (those poor vista users...)

  18. optimal use for 3d cube desktop

    in Art And Design

    Posted

    Hi,

     

    I am currently running the 3D desktop (CompizFusion) on Mandriva 2008. While it looks very cool I am wondering what are the practical aspects of this desktop setup. I find myself using only one out of the 4 virtual desktops - when I work, I usually open one window after another without thinking about switching desktops first. Is there a way to open a window in one desktop and then move it to one of the other desktops? I know that this can be done in the classic scheme using the desktop pager. Anyone know of other benefits of using the 3D desktop please let me know too!

     

    Thanks!

  19. Compiz Fusion altered desktop menu appearance

    in Art And Design

    Posted

    Hi,

     

    I am running Mandriva 2008 spring, and I just enabled compiz fusion and the cube desktop in KDE. Everything is fine but now for example when I click on menu, the menu list is loaded in a weird transition (side-swiping from the side). Is there anyway to change that so when I click on Menu or any other toolbar icon, the menu list would just appear instead of using some slow transition effect? ALso, is there a way to change the color of the menu list from Gray to something else?

     

    THank you!

  23. mandriva start up really really slow...

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    Hi,

     

    I am a newbie who is trying to install Mandriva on my desktop running windows XP. It is an emachine with Intel Celeron, 2ghz and 256 RAM. I downloaded Mandriva One and created an ISO-image boot disc. The installation starts smoothly, it prompts me for the language/time settings and if I want to use Metisse/Comp Fusion (I chose no 3D effects). Then the main desktop appeared and everything is sluggishly slow - the mouse cursor drags slowly and sometimes disappears and opening one window just takes forever. I don't have internet set-up yet (I haven't plugged the ethernet cable in the machine). I thought it was going to ask me about parititioning but it didn't.. Can someone help me identify the problem??

     

    Thanks so much.

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