hi everyone! i have been just installed mandriva2006 free. And soon get sick from that linux. Firstly linux works slow! Secondly linux crashes often. How i can solve it? I'm try to change KDE to Gnome, but nothing.. I expected that will work more faster than windows and be more stable Help!
My PC: AMD Duron 750hhz,256ram.
[sorry 4 my bad English]

where are everyone? i'm soon will go back 2 windows.. all linux are slow and unstable like this?

I do not recommend you start using Mandriva when first learning. Especially not their free version in which they remove some very basic and necessary commands and utilities.

I reccomend you begin with Ubuntu. It has slightly fewer applications and is not quite as customizable, but I think you will have much better luck running it out of the box.

Oh, one other important thing. If your computer is a cheap new Compaq, e-machines, or dell, it may not run well with anything, even windows.

Later...

I don't agree with the above, the Mandriva Free version ships with all basic utilities and commands (more than the basic packages in Ubuntu). Your problem could be a package called kat. Start the Mandriva Control Center, go to Software, select Remove Software and search for kat. Select it for uninstallation and once its done, log out of your session and then back in. obviously you are running Linux on modest hardware and ram, so kat will cause you a lot of problems.

I agree with redazz
dont ditch Mandriva
you could have the same probs with ubuntu
best to sort out probs
rather than cry and run away

your computer is a little on the slow and old side
and apart from kat which a lot seem to have probs with
you are using the latest KDE
which might be a little too heavy for your gear
what kind of video card do you have

I have Mandrake 10 running on gear with those specs
and sometimes running faster than windows

are you dual booting ?
i.e running Mandriva and windows on the same machine ?

cheers
floppy

i've removed kat. and have few more questions. Firstly, why i can't choose resolution 1024X768 32bit, only 1024X768 24bit? My LCD monitor don't like this mode very much.. and how 2 exit X server? Then i'm trying to install nvidia driver i got a message:
You appear to be running an X server; please exit X before installing.
And then i run few programs one time linux often krashes (works only mouse), is here something like ctrl+alt+del to kill some programs? i don't wanna restart PC every time.
And one more question. why XMMS normaly works only then i run it from terminal? if i just double click on icon on desktop it crhash when i pressed 'play'. And why Beep-media-player don't play songs from my ntfs partition?
to: a2brute. Thanks, but i've tryied ubunti and it sux.. my pc not Compaq, e-machines, or dell. It was so good 5years ago... and windows on it works good enought.
thankz 4 answers have a good day

you removed Kat - good
but you need to tell us what kind of video card you have
as I suspect this is where your problem is

to speed things up a bit
you could install fluxbox instead of KDE or Gnome

there is a very good how-to here
about installing nvidia drivers
but you will need to read them VERY carefully
I will dig out the links for you

cheers
floppy

read these
print them off if you have to

Daleks how-to
http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/...n_5_EASY_Steps
any probs - read this
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=194100
and make sure you check this page out
especially the "read-me"
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_d..._1.0-8174.html

plenty of light reading there
I'm not using Mandriva 2006 ( use M 10.0 )
but if you have any probs
someone like tkedwards
should be able to help

cheers
floppy

In Linux and Unix the 24 bit setting for your video card is the same as the 32 bit setting in Windows. This is one of those things that used to confuse me as a Linux newb and I always failed to configure the xserver correctly if I did it manually.

my video card gForce 2mx 32mb ram. i'm usin' dual boot(windows xp+mandriva).

i've just install nvidia drivers. works fine. after removing cat it's works better thankz. but maybe is somithing else with what i could speed up pc. because it still slower than win. And how i could do that i could write to NTFS partitions. i can only read it..

In Linux there isn't a nifty one size fits all tool. You can do a ps command from the bash prompt in a terminal window and get a list of the active processes depending on the options you enter with it so check the man page on ps by typeing man ps in a terminal window.

To kill an offensive process you type kill and the process id number (also calld a PID). Depending on the options or switches you specify on the kill command dictates how the operating system will kill the process. Also, you must either be the process owner or the root user to kill a process.

As far as I know NTFS partitions are read only partitions from Linux. There are reasons both technical and legal for this but it's a sad truth. If you need to pass data back and forth between the two operating systems, I'd recommend creating a FAT32 partition which would be both readable and writable to each OS.

Good luck
M. Lacy
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