hi
i’m really new to opensuse, and linux in general. i started using 11.2 in may and i’m still having trouble. i started it on a newly refurbished hp pavillion.
it’s always seemed to run slow, freezes up when i plug in my external hard drive, won’t play music on amarok or it will lag, things like that. when i run it in windows everything works fine. and it has always ran really hot and loud when in opensuse.
to make things worse, lately if i open mozilla, all the programs/windows i have open will disappear, all my tabs will disappear, all the icons on my desktop disappear and my application launcher, clock, etc, all disappear. when i manually shut it down and restart it works fine for a while.
can anyone help walk me through this? i keep trying to find things online but i’ve gotten to the point where i’m afraid to mess it up more because i really don’t know what i’m doing…
thanks…
-p
Lets assume you install media is good and that you ran the media check and it was good:
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_hOiUsWwC6VQ/TC2F9NNQKPI/AAAAAAAAASQ/90wbVzpVa48/s640/1.jpg
You could do with telling us about your hardware, particularly your graphics card.?
For the moment,leave your usb HD disconnected, but tell us what make and model it is and if it is connected directly or to a hub?
Yes, the installation CD checked good when I ran it.
I have a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650, with AMD Turion X2 RM-74 and 4 GB RAM on the Pavilion DV7.
The HD is an Iomega 160 GB Portable eGO 2.0 USB, and it’s not connected with an external hub.
Thanks!
Please check this for ATI
openSUSE Graphic Card Practical Theory Guide for Users
Never use a USB hub in Linux is my experience
Thanks! I configured the graphics card to radeonhd, there was no existing xorg.conf file. That seemed to speed everything up… until I got carried away and plugged the hd in. It took about 10 minutes to load, and in the mean time everything else froze (Mozilla, terminal, and application launcher).
Is this on a hub or not, I couldn’t decide from your earlier comment.
No, it’s not on a hub. It does have a dual input usb cable which I’m using to power it right now; it has a DC option that I’ve never used because I don’t have a cable, I’m not sure if that would allow better transfer speeds though…
I’m not familiar with the make of device you have, my Western Digital Elements is flawless.
Perhaps someone else can shed some light on it?
Have you tried it with a live CD/other distros perhaps
I’d be interested to see it’s fdisk -l output though.
I’ll try it on another distro tonight and see what happens…
Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc009b761
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 19457 156288321 b W95 FAT32
I don’t think its an installation issue. It happened to my OpenSuse 11.1 just this week. Some how my menu disappeared from the task bar. I’m chalking it up to user error but …
On 2010-07-09 20:36 GMT xohxvalentinex wrote:
>
> No, it’s not on a hub. It does have a dual input usb cable which I’m
> using to power it right now; it has a DC option that I’ve never used
> because I don’t have a cable, I’m not sure if that would allow better
> transfer speeds though…
You mean that the disk is powered directly from the computer, via the
usb cable (or two usb cables?). I don’t like that system, I prefer the
disk having its own power. Otherwise it puts a lot of load on the
motherboard.
(By the way, I don’t see a problem with usb hubs and linux. I have
one. Powered, of course.)
Faster transfer with external power? Dunno. But if the disk doesn’t get
enough power to spin up the motor, then it would take a long time to
start. But not slow up the rest of the computer.
Is that hard disk partitioned as NTFS? It can take a lot of cpu to use
them, depends how fast it is.
Icons and the rest disappearing? Is that gnome? Then nautilus died.
Restart it.
I assume you have done the updates?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))
Yes, it’s powered from the computer through the usb cable. Maybe I’ll try to find an external one and see if that speeds it up.
I believe it has a FAT32 file system? I’m not entirely sure what that means or how to change it…
Currently running on KDE, but it hasn’t done the weird icon disappear thing since I updated the gpu driver, so that might have fixed it. Or it may have been user error like tararpharazon said… though if opening mozillia and dolphin at the same time is a user error then I’m screwed :sarcastic:
I also haven’t tried it on a different distro yet…
Thanks!
-P