[ILUG] Mandrake 10 and kde 3.2

[Conor Wynne]

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 15:48, kevin wrote:
> We have been trying out Mandrake 10. Everything appears VERY slow. The main 
> kde menu takes several seconds top appear whereas the main kde menu in 9.1 
> kde 3.1 was immediate. Applications take several seconds to appear when they 
> use to be fast. Anyone any idea why? I thought kde 3.2 and 2.6 kernel where 
> mean't to be faster? I have checked for rogue services but this was an update 
> and all the services are the same as when we had 9.1. Also the machine is an 
> Athlon XP2000 with 256MB ram so we should be OK for resources.

Something is borked. MDK10 and 2.6 are indeed faster, well 2.6 is faster
anyway. I was using gnome exclusively up till one of the kids moved the
top menubar to the side - resulting in gigantic icons a quarter way
across the screen (anyone know a solution)
I then changed to kde amd that works as fast if not faster :-)

On a side note, I can also rinning lookingglass from Sun, and still no
slowdown - even though they specify 512NB as a requirement!

(I'm using 1700XP, 256NBm MDK10 - Currently running 2.6.7)
The default kernel from ndk10 is 2.6.3something, so check uname -r.

I would start by doing all the updates via urpmi, see how that goes.
If that still goes crapm & if its only a workstationm then why not
install afresh?

Please excuse my typos as I am using a german keyboard due to spilling
beer on my normal one :--)

> Kevin.

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