Suse 11.0 - Disappointed

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I have an AMD Phenom 9500 Quad-Core, 3GB Ram, 8800GT 512 Video and a very fast MB. I installed Suse 11.0 64bit from the DVD. You would think Suse would run great; it doesn’t.

3D gaming works great but nothing else. Scrolling pictures in Konqueror is slow, scrolling websites with Firefox 3.0 is agonizingly slow making it unusable; same problem in Opera. The whole system seems slow and unresponsive. Lost KDE icons, KDE crashes, SaX2 doesn’t work.

I’m not sure I can use this OS. So far, not happy with it at all. 10.3 was much better.

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That’s awful funny, I have a AMD FX2 6400+ 3.2 Ghz with 4 gig ram and an nVidia GeForce 8800GT w/512 RAM Overclocked by BFG and am running openSUSE 11.0 x86-64 with absolutely no problems. What desktop are you using, if it’s KDE 4.0.4 that might explain some of the problems you’re having, it is BETA software after all? I use the rock solid KDE 3.5.9 and have none of the issues you seem to be having.

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I guess I will try removing 4.0.4 and going back to 3.5.9. I sure hope that fixes it. I was loving 10.3.

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Nope. Here’s a test: Go to http://www.lockergnome.com/

Scroll down. Takes forever.

KDE3 looks better. I’ll try it for awhile. If I can’t scroll in FF I can’t really use it.

Scrolling pics with huge pictures and thumbnails works great now! :slight_smile: At least that’s fixed.

Btw: I didn’t remove KDE4, just installed KDE3.

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Okay, turned off Smooth Scrolling in FF3. It’s better, still sluggish.

KDE 3.5 is running much snappier. I think I stick with it until maybe 4.1 or 4.2.

Thanks. You have made my day. I love Suse and don’t want use something else.

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Update with the latest nVidia drivers - they’re one big problem.

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Thanks, I will give that a try. I know there is also a scrolling bug if FF3.

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> Nope. Here’s a test: Go to http://www.lockergnome.com/
> Scroll down. Takes forever.

hmmmm…a big part of that problem with that page has nothing to do
with SuSE…it is just SLOW…fastest in Opera, next fastest in
Konqueror and slowest in Firefox (and jerky when scrolling…whereas
MANY sites are very smooth when scrolled in my Firefox…)

and guess what: take a peek at the html for the sites front page…it
has special style sheets for three situations:

if IE
if gte IE 7
if lte IE 6

but nothing for Firefox, Safari, Konqueror etc etc etc…typical of a
site designed to try to make IE look like a champ.

DenverD
nothing new there…

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The ones that hit the repo today improved at least my KDE4 somewhat but then again turning off Compiz fixed almost all issues - since I use the station mainly as a compilation platform atm it’s not really an issue.

I also have some experimental stuff in xorg.conf that I’ve been testing with varying results - like changing the X acceleration architecture around a bit.

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It’s not slow with FF3 on Windows Vista however. It scrolls just fine.

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On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:16:49 GMT
DenverD <spam.trap@Texan.dk> wrote:

>and guess what: take a peek at the html for the sites front page…it
>has special style sheets for three situations:
>
>if IE
>if gte IE 7
>if lte IE 6
>
>but nothing for Firefox, Safari, Konqueror etc etc etc…typical of a
>site designed to try to make IE look like a champ.
>

Almost all browsers, except IE, follow W3C standards. I start by
developing a page with the CSS that I want and making it look right.
Then I tweak the CSS, along with the HTML, to make it appear consistent
across Firefox, SeaMonkey, Epiphany, Konqueror and Opera (no Macs, so
can’t test directly on Safari, but I have a friend that checks it on
her computer). Once that is finished, I have to add in all the
exceptions for IE and its many incarnations.

Look closer at that web page source, and you’ll see there are four
stylesheets that do not need IF statements, because they work on all
browsers including IE:

<link rel=“stylesheet”
<link rel=“stylesheet”
<link rel=“stylesheet”
<link rel=“stylesheet”

<!–[if IE]><link rel=“stylesheet”
<!–[if gte IE 7]><link rel=“stylesheet”
<!–[if lte IE 6]><link rel=“stylesheet”

I’m fairly certain the three special cases (all for the ‘screen,
presentation’ style sheets but not for ‘print’) are to compensate for
IE’s obtuse refusal to follow standards . . .

–
Kevin Nathan (Arizona, USA)
Linux is not a destination, it’s a journey – enjoy the trip!

Linux 2.6.22.18-0.2-default
2:57pm up 3 days 17:14, 21 users, load average: 2.01, 1.86, 1.99

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On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:36:03 GMT
mooreted <mooreted@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>It’s not slow with FF3 on Windows Vista however. It scrolls just fine.
>

FF2 and FF3 both are faster on Windows – I think the FF developers
have gone over to the Dark Side! :slight_smile:

–
Kevin Nathan (Arizona, USA)
Linux is not a destination, it’s a journey – enjoy the trip!

Linux 2.6.22.18-0.2-default
3:15pm up 3 days 17:32, 21 users, load average: 1.63, 1.67, 1.75

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Oh no, say it ain’t so!

:slight_smile: