[wplug] Redhat 9 Depressing as a first impression

[John Strange]

Well after more digging I'm finding out a bit more:

Anything I do in X is a major drag, soon as I dump X and run the console
everything works out.  This may have something to do with XFree, or the
fact that I'm dual heading.

Interesting enough that when I run single headed things seem to appear
much snappier, unless I'm using the new nvidia driver, which there seems
to be a lot of issues with it according to their forums.

Looks like I picked the wrong combination of things to rebuild my
desktop with this week hehe.. DOH!

Don,

I don't have a spare .config around or I would give it to you see if you
could make heads or tails of it.  Right now I can not find out why
everything in X is really slow, it's not burning cpu time, iostat is
good, the only thing I can guess is maybe some interrupt problem.

Or maybe it's something to do with the default X with xinerama enabled. 
I'll start whacking things one at a time till it fixes it hehe..  Of
course the patch will come out right after I figure out what's wrong...

Blah, wish me luck..

On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 12:46, Lance Tost wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Vanco, Donald wrote:
> > > This is the most trouble I've ever had with a redhat release sinced
> > > redhat 5.0 :( 
> > 	Yeah - it seems to be a real turd on quite a few fronts.....  I
> > can't recall a past release that had this many bugfixes available or in the
> > works a week after it came out.  Blech.  I expect a glibc update any day
> > now, if not sooner.
> > 
> 
> I upgraded my laptop from 8 to 9 yesterday and had almost no problems.  I 
> needed to reconfigure X but that was it.  X looks a lot cleaner.. fonts 
> are sharper.  There's now a wifi link monitor applet for the gnome panel 
> which is nice.. other than that, I don't see a lot of big changes.  
>