iphitus Posted July 7, 2003 Report Share Posted July 7, 2003 Funny the same thing happened to me. It never disrupted any programs though. And Gnome was faster and more stable than KDE for me. I used Enlightenment for a while, great. I now use fluxbox though. Very good. Even faster than gnome at launching my apps. But don't use the Fluxbox RPM. It was very slow. I compiled it from source and it's a lot faster. It's a possibility he's not using dhcpcd. He could be using dhclient or pump (pump unlikely). Oh well good luck James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ions Posted July 7, 2003 Report Share Posted July 7, 2003 I've done some more searching, reading and mild tinkering and still have this problem. :( Any other ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ions Posted July 7, 2003 Report Share Posted July 7, 2003 I know this is more of a Windows style solution but what about just doing a fresh install? Maybe since I did my install I've tinkered something the wrong way and finding it would be like finding a needle in a haystack? Why not just build another haystack? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ions Posted July 7, 2003 Report Share Posted July 7, 2003 Any chance my Gnome performance issues lie in the video drivers? I came across this post: http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.p...der=asc&start=0 How can I tell if that's the problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted July 7, 2003 Report Share Posted July 7, 2003 Just for a laugh, go to MCC and run the networking wizard again. Make sure you choose expert and choose the option for cable modem. I'm not sure if this will help or hinder; but it's worth a shot before you resort to a windows-like reinstall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted July 7, 2003 Report Share Posted July 7, 2003 I used to get the same error in redhat which is gnome based. The well known fix in redhat for that startup error is to add the following line to /etc/hosts right below the 127.0.0.1 localhost line: 127.0.0.1 <insert jiberish from error message, in your case:x1-6-00-80-c8-dd-4c-16> localhost.localdomain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ions Posted July 7, 2003 Report Share Posted July 7, 2003 Just for a laugh, go to MCC and run the networking wizard again. Make sure you choose expert and choose the option for cable modem. I'm not sure if this will help or hinder; but it's worth a shot before you resort to a windows-like reinstall. I guess I should have all my settings written out to input them as I go. Is there a console command I can use that will display the details for me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 7, 2003 Report Share Posted July 7, 2003 If you install the latest drivers from nvidia.com, you won't have a performance issue with gnome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted July 8, 2003 Report Share Posted July 8, 2003 Just for a laugh, go to MCC and run the networking wizard again. Make sure you choose expert and choose the option for cable modem. I'm not sure if this will help or hinder; but it's worth a shot before you resort to a windows-like reinstall. I guess I should have all my settings written out to input them as I go. Is there a console command I can use that will display the details for me? If you use DHCP with your cable provider (I imagine you do) then you should be able to choose auto-detection, DHCP, obtain IP automatically. If you were assigned an IP by your ISP, you need to know that, the default gateway, the DNS server, and 1 or 2 more things, I'm not sure. Most cable providers now use DHCP (I think) so your IP is assigned by them. It may never change (like mine, 2 years and it's only changed once, when @home was taken over by attbi) but it is still assigned by them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 11, 2003 Report Share Posted July 11, 2003 I know you're using kde now but just for future reference..... The inability to delete the icons for my floppy drive and cd rom on the desktop. Apparently I don't have permission to remove icons off of my own desktop.Move all your icons to the center of the desktop>Open Nautilus and go to Edit then Preferences>change Icon View Defaults to 75%>Move the icons you wish to disappear to the edge of the screen (I used the rt edge)>Change the Icon View Defaults back to 100%. GONE :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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