Gnome

billkris · 01-08-2003, 07:40 PM

When I boot up into Gnome I get the menu bar at the bottom of the screen but no icons on the screen. I have to wait about 3 minutes for nautillus to finish loading and display the icons. Everything works fine after that.

I am running RH8 on a P200 with 196meg RAM. I will add that I didn't have this problem the first time I installed RH8 on this machine but had to reinstall because I had to pull a drive from it.

Any ideas? :-)

Bill

trickykid · 01-08-2003, 07:49 PM

Nautilus is a resource hog itself. I use Gnome and disable Nautilus even running on my 900mhz its kind of slow, so that is most likely the cause of it running on a P200.

membrax · 01-09-2003, 02:21 AM

a P200 with 196meg RAM ???

Why don't you install RH on a real system ?

Just kidding, humor is good sometimes.

KayJay · 01-09-2003, 07:21 AM

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Originally posted by trickykid
Nautilus is a resource hog itself. I use Gnome and disable Nautilus even running on my 900mhz its kind of slow, so that is most likely the cause of it running on a P200.

no not anymore...they changed it totally in Gnome2... it's really fast now.. it used to be awful on 1.4 yes
it takes 1 second to load Nautilus now

moeminhtun · 01-09-2003, 07:44 AM

Yeah I agree. I'm using Redhat 8.0 GNOME. It's very fast.

trickykid · 01-09-2003, 08:51 AM

And how fast are the computers your using ? Gnome alone is gonna be slow on a P200 added with Nautilus and anything else loading for X..

It might not be a resource hog now in the latest release but you have to consider he's running on a fairly slower system too.

KayJay · 01-09-2003, 02:57 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by trickykid
And how fast are the computers your using ? Gnome alone is gonna be slow on a P200 added with Nautilus and anything else loading for X..

Everything is slower on a system like that... try running KDE with Kwin on it..same thing..

billkris · 01-09-2003, 03:42 PM

Thanks for all your comments... Even the funny ones :-)

I trIed turning off nautillus draw deskop and I still have to wait almost 3 minutes for the destop to finsih loading.

I have noticed that in the system logs I am getting quite a few hdc lost interrupts -- that is my CD. I am thinking maybe that is my problem.

I am also thinking that the suggestion for me to get a real pc is probably the best one <grin> I'll work on that. It looks like this old amptron board doesn't like linux.

Regards,
Bill