[wplug] Redhat 9 Depressing as a first impression

[Vanco, Donald]

Contact me off-line if you feel like trying a build of glibc that being
considered for a bugfix.

Don

John Strange wrote:
> 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. 
>> 
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