kungfooya Posted May 11, 2005 Report Share Posted May 11, 2005 I have recently installed mandriva 2005 and overall its been the easiest mandrake version for me to run. But I have 2 minor issues with it that maybe some of you could help me clear up. 1) When booting up, its seems like it takes way longer than previous versions. I would say it takes at least 2x as long to boot as 10.0, or longer. It seems to hang the longest when starting portmapper. I have shutdown portmapper in the services area, but still it takes forever. 2) When booting up up, KDE doesn't always start. Instead of going into KDE, I get a login prompt. As far as I know, this is random. Any ideas whats going on here? Thanks for any advice. Like I said these are minor issues, but I'd like to figure them out. Jason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted May 11, 2005 Report Share Posted May 11, 2005 I have seen the problem you mention as #1 as well. Bootup is slower. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted May 11, 2005 Report Share Posted May 11, 2005 I reboot so rarely that a little slowdown upon it is insignificant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted May 11, 2005 Report Share Posted May 11, 2005 I reboot so rarely that a little slowdown upon it is insignificant True :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted May 11, 2005 Report Share Posted May 11, 2005 yeah, if you already disabled portmapper (and harddrake, if you don't change hardware a lot) then there's not a lot else you can do. It's just slower. Sorry about that. :) for the second problem, what kind of graphics card do you have? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kungfooya Posted May 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2005 I haven't disabled harddrake. I do use 2 different usb draives alot, will this cause problems if i disable it? As for my graphics card, its a geforce 4 ti4200, with the latest drivers. thanks. jason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted May 12, 2005 Report Share Posted May 12, 2005 Regarding the second problem I have run into it. Ever since I installed the nvidia drivers for my graphics card I get the login prompt. I'd love to know what's up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted May 12, 2005 Report Share Posted May 12, 2005 kungfooya: edit /etc/modprobe.preload and add the word 'nvidia' on a new line, if it's not there already. harddrake does not deal with USB devices, as they're hotpluggable; you can disable it safely. It deals with coldplug devices, i.e., ones you would not change without powering down the system (internal drives, PCI cards etc). If you ever do decide to change one of these things, remember to re-enable harddrake before doing so :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kungfooya Posted May 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2005 adamw, thanks for the suggestions, i will try them this weekend. I have another question for you all after reading the responses. I have been using linux/mandrake since 9.2, and have learned a bunch of stuff using it. My question is, how do you guys get to know all of this stuff? Do you buy books, read online? I would like to get to the point where I could just say, do this and this, then this. But its hard to find something that says what each thing does, in terms a average guy can understand. I think i'm rambling, thanks agin for the responses. Jason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theo Posted May 13, 2005 Report Share Posted May 13, 2005 adamw, thanks for the suggestions, i will try them this weekend. I have another question for you all after reading the responses. just worked for me too: do that! (give us your feedback) I have been using linux/mandrakesince 9.2, and have learned a bunch of stuff using it. My question is, how do you guys get to know all of this stuff? Do you buy books, read online? I would like to get to the point where I could just say, do this and this, then this. But its hard to find something that says what each thing does, in terms a average guy can understand. I think i'm rambling, thanks agin for the responses. Jason <{POST_SNAPBACK}> passion ... a lot of hours to read, indeed, a lot of time on forums and to search & try new functionalities, to read & search solutions on the net (Google is your friend ), to test, to use ... just a passion. I'm coming from the microsoft world (since 1990, I'm 27 now) and I'm still a newbie with linux. I'm using mandrake/mandriva since this year (january). I was lost. Totally lost. Wazza? Serious. And now, may 2005, I'm feeling more confident with linux because all of that. I wanted to do the step and in any case I regret. Linux is fascinating. But not only Linux: the community (like MUB), open source softwares, philosophy, spirit in general, freedom of the choice, security ... and so much more still. Yes, I can say it, in my case, it's passion! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted May 14, 2005 Report Share Posted May 14, 2005 Google, mailing lists, IRC. I've never read a book on Linux. I've probably learned most from following Cooker; the Cooker ml is not a support list and you shouldn't post questions there, but you will pick up a large amount of miscellaneous technical knowledge in passing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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