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Having problems with Linux.....

post #1 of 15
3/14/05 at 2:48pm
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Well then I suppose it's about time for me to do a problem post.
Here's the problem: I tried installing Suse over the weekend, didn't work, was extremelly slow and, eventually, gave up on that. Installed Fedora Core instead, which was still very, very slow, but did install; No it takes ten minutes(roughly) to boot up, works all right once booted, but just a little slow...
Anyone else had this problem/know how to fix it?
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post #2 of 15
3/14/05 at 7:20pm
I have same problem, do u have old or new sentia? (I have 15")

Ive tried RH9, FC1,2,3 Mandrake 10.1, Suse 9.2

Of these Mandrake and Suse where the most stable and Mandrake even supports the wireless card but they both run sooo slow, they take a good hour to boot, run ultra slow once in OS, and I cant figure out whats up. It takes 10-20 seconds just to open a console window.

As for FC3, this is very fickle I installed it 20-30 times, still same problem with slow operation although not as bad as others.....I even got it to install once where it ran flawwless- boots complete in under 2 minutes!!!! but I have been unable to reproduce that situation, normally 5-10 minutes to boot. And any kind of update or adding additional kernels makes the whole Installation/OS get slower and run weird!

Alienware has nothing, Im tempted to contact uniwill to find out wtf as I have been working on this for over 2 months with no good answers

Wonder where booga has gotten w/ this so far
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post #3 of 15
3/14/05 at 7:44pm
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New one, 12.1" more info:http://notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=57419
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post #4 of 15
3/14/05 at 7:47pm
I just read a post that it may be a ram issue, someone posted that 2.4 kernels have problems with ram in excess of 900mb's so Im removing one of my ram modules down to 512 to see what it does, but the 2.6 that comes w/ the llatest distros should have no prob's so Im not too hopefull
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post #5 of 15
3/14/05 at 7:51pm
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My brother and I were thinking it was something to do with out ethernet cards...it seems to always hang the longest while searching for a network. *shurg*
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post #6 of 15
3/14/05 at 7:52pm
Oh No!

This is IT!!!!

I just removed one of my ram stiks and got full boot of Suse 9.2 in about 1 minute!!!!!
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post #7 of 15
3/14/05 at 7:53pm
console window opens in 2 seconds instead of 10 - 20 secs!!!
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post #8 of 15
3/14/05 at 7:54pm
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Well then, that's no fun at all.
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post #9 of 15
3/14/05 at 7:58pm
I would prefer to run Fedora 3, but Mandrake 10.1 has built in support for wireless(and wpa), dont know if this ram fix will make fedora stable b/c I had lotsa problebs when installing the workarounds for the wireless card, dont know if it was a ram related issue or not.
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post #10 of 15
3/14/05 at 7:59pm
Yeah now gotta figure out why even new kernels are having problems with the ram- of to linux questions.org
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post #11 of 15
3/15/05 at 2:46pm
As someone pointed out to me on another message board:

"The problem is that you only have support for 960 megabytes of physical RAM enabled in your kernel.
Recompile your kernel with himem support or look for a pre-compiled kernel package from your distro that supports it."

This should solve your kernel problem also!!!
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post #12 of 15
3/18/05 at 4:20am
funny thing I checked my kernels and himem appeared 2 b enabled????
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post #13 of 15
4/1/05 at 5:31pm
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It is the RAM that does it, you can disable by typiing mem=xxxM noprobe. I set it at 512. Will post a more detailed instruction set (for FC3) on my website soon.
18 Mar 2006. It's down again, if you really want to, you can ask an' I'll give you more detailed instructions.
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post #14 of 15
4/18/05 at 1:24pm
what are these crazy program of which you speak?! (not linux the others)
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post #15 of 15
4/18/05 at 5:08pm
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Do you mean FC3, Mandrake, Suse, and all those?
Those are different distros of Linux, each beautiful in their own little way, and all being fourty bajillion.5 times better than Windows.
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