On Friday 11 December 2009, Tim wrote:
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 13:51 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Would the bios drive order translation account for the slowness of the
> F12 system? It is intolerably slow when multitasking, often taking 30
> seconds to a minute to close a window if the package manager is also
> running.
The BIOS will be used to read the drive to begin booting a system, but
Linux uses its own drivers post-boot. So the problem would be
elsewhere.
Very slow graphics smacks of other issues: Video drivers, or even
networking (name resolution, chiefly).
It wasn't just slow graphics Tim. It was
ssssssssssssssssslllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
However that might be a clue of sorts as it had to search and find my router
to even get a network connection & use dhcp to get an ip address. I have
been using static hosts based addressing on the local net here for a decade,
and its NOT on the 192.168.1 subnet. But I didn't try to kill nm forever and
reconfigure the networking for static as it would have taken several hours at
the speed it was running.
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