Hello to all, I am a former W$ndoze Addict and have now moved on to SuSe 9.1 Pro and play a little with Mandrake. I am a newbie and must say that I have found replacements for most of that other OS's apps, with the exception of Quickbooks 2003 which I run in Cross Over Office.
My problem is that I am learning as I go, which may be a partial mistake, but what a better time to learn. Anyway, my lack of knowledge may be causing me some problems I can't fix or don't know how. I am running SuSe Pro 9.1 on my laptop which has been working flawlessly for about a month going on two.
Within the last week I have noticed that when I open my /home folder, Cross Over Office and some other applications, it takes roughly 10-15 minutes before they will open up? Whether I open them from the desktop or from the program list.
Now a problem I was having is that my laptop would sit out in the kitchen on the table plugged in. I would leave it run all night and some mornings I would come out and notice the laptop was dead-off. After this happening several times, I found the GFI breaker was blowing and shutting power off, thus my laptop would run until the battery died. I then moved to another power outlet but then found my wife was blowing out another GFI breaker, again killing the power to the laptop and then the batteries dying.
So I am sure this has something to do with the slowness I am experiencing. My question is how an I get SuSe-Linux to repair any damage this may have caused or what can I try to remedy this problem? I don't get any errors that I am aware of when trying to open the programs. It just takes 10-15 minutes before the programs open up.
I will mention I am running a ECS G732 Laptop, P4 2.66GHz, 512 DDRAM-PC2700, 60GB HD, CD-R/RW, Wireless Netgear WG511, SIS 900 Internal NIC, HSP56K Modem, USB 2.0, Firewire. ATI Radeon 9000 64MB Video Card. SIS 645DX Chipsets.
The only software mods I have done are within the last 2 weeks and they were to Kaffiene, Gxine and Xine. I unistalled the stock programs from SuSe and installed the latest version with Codecs so I could watch DVDs, etc.
I am also running KDE 3.3
I do get an error when I try and open K3B it is “KDEinit could not launch “k3b”
Programs that Open Right Away-To Name A Few
Gimp opens
Thunderbird and FF
Control Center
Open Office
Kaffiene
KDE System Guard
Address Book
10-15 Minute Programs-To Name A Few
YAST
KARAMBA
/home
SuSe Help Center
Kate
File Manager-Super User Mode
Hope this sheds some light on my problem and hope someone can provide some guidance.
Thanks,
John