From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 25 04:09:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0980F16A4CF for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 04:09:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2D7D43D3F for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 04:09:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Sat, 24 Jul 2004 23:11:21 -0500 Message-ID: <4103327E.1080606@daleco.biz> Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 23:09:34 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040712 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: DK References: <20040725020849.44439.qmail@web41006.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040725020849.44439.qmail@web41006.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Jul 2004 04:11:22.0515 (UTC) FILETIME=[71EBA630:01C471FD] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD v4.10 - Newbie Needs Help - KDE Really Slow !! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 04:09:38 -0000 DK wrote: >Hi all, > >I just installed FreeBSD v4.10. >All installed OK & I choose KDE as the Desktop > >Problem: KDE v3 is reallly SLOW!! > > > Probably true. >- Takes 2 minutes to start/load !! > > 2 minutes --- After the system grabs the tty? How long from the power button until you have a desktop? >- Just opening a simple Console takes almost a minute !! > > This might be KDE, might be other bad configuration. >- Resolution looks really grainy - as if its 256 colors - Don't know how to change this ??? > > > Read the FreeBSD handbook (IIRC, Chapter 5 is the one ... whichever is "The X Window System"). It's a process that's not easily described in a short email such as this... >My System: >Pentium 200Mhz >128MB RAM >16MB PCI Creative Graphics Blaster Riva TNT > > I'm running GNOME2 on an AMD 475 for one of my workers. It suffers from similar issues ... quite slow in starting new apps, etc. GNOME's a big environment, with lots of stuff running in the background. So is KDE. If I felt this worker could handle it, I'd give them something a tad less weighty like black/fluxbox or fvwm. I personally would not consider ever running a new GNOME or KDE on a Pentium I...unless I had no other choice. And, if it were me, I'd probably still pick fluxbox instead of trying to deal with modern, full blown environments on old hardware.... >I have Windows 2000 installed on the Primary Boot partition & that runs very fast. >I thought that FreeBSD with KDE would run just as fast if not faster than Windows 2000 ??? > > That I find interesting. Have you tried booting the system to a regular CLI? There could easily be things holding up the boot process. Sendmail looking for a hostname is often one of them.... One thing I can tell you, adding RAM to FBSD does a lot more for the system than it does for Windows, in my experience. If you've another chip, don't spare the horses.... >If it helps, the only thing I can think of is whether the system loaded the correct Graphics Card >?? >- BUT I don't know how to check this ?? - Cannot find a Display Properties like windows that lists >the Graphics Card ?? > > > KDE, and any other wm/environment, runs on top of XFree86. XFree86 reads from configuration files ... mine is /etc/X11/XF868Config. Like I said above, you need to read up a bit before you get it going. >Any suggestions/help is greatly appreciated :)) > >BTW: I searched Google Groups & freebsd Digest before posting but not much help :( > > Umm, yeah. You'd have to have a better idea what to look for, I guess. I know when I was a newb, I didn't even install a GUI for like 2 years..... >Regards, > >DK > >