The worst distribution I have seen: ----------------------------------- It is totally useless on this hardware. HP Compac 6715b. 1. xorg.conf is missing, but attempting to make one never made it recognize 'SHMConfig' 'true', which is very important in this case. 2. Perhaps it is not meant to use xorg.conf ? Found some notes about setting things in HAL ? And the software is probing the screen in a clever way, as it looks to my. Generation of the xorg.conf was done by "xorg -configure :1" and attempt to make an entry for synaptics touchpad was tried. Question: - is it meant to use an xorg.conf or should something be set in some HAL files instead ? 3. For the very first time, I was able to get Wifi with # rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm # yum update # yum install broadcom-wl ( after such a long wait and trouble, this was really something ) 4. Installed some codecs and hooked up an ZEN V player, which was great as well. 5. The troublesome issues: - much of this was done in text mode, as too often it is not possible to get any mouse control in graphic mode. An external mouse doesn't help either. - several programs steal the mouse. Among those programs that is most affected, I may mention things like Firefox. - some of the more difficult and difficult programs is Evolution email. What you type appear several words later on the screen. It steal the mouse, and it is totally hopeless. - often you can only start it up and you have to turn power off and restart as I have not found ways to interract with it at times. Cntl-Alt-Delete, or attempting to dump to textmode or what ever - do not work as far as I can tell. - some of the keys function keys work, for example the touch switch for radio on/off, and there are more hardware enabled then before. - in firefox and other programs, the computer seem to stop for seconds at a time, before it start updating the display again. The funny part is that the for longer periods Firefox works nice. Java heavy pages seem to screw up the whole computer, but then I found it worked much better when connected with the wireless instead of cable ? The only thing is that there are some horisontal noise streaks across the screen, but other then that, it seem to improve things. - for a long time, I did suspect something really wrong with java. It is dead slow at times. You have the impression like you would attempt to run XP on a 133MHz petium or similar. Takes minutes for things to change. Or perhaps like it would be on a memory starved machine. Still, system monitor do not show any memory swapping, or heavy use of memory. - tried some grub changes with the apic, but either I have done it wrong, or I have not noticed any changes at all. Any idea what may cause this ? ( not be able to log in as root make it troublesome to figure out things while in graphic mode. In text mode, things seem to behave as it should. ) Then in periods, things seem to work. I am writing this in gedit, and will attempt to paste this into the browser, as and send this. I think this x86_64 version is the worse I have seen. Have Fedora 10 running on a celeron, and that seem to work. BTW. Is there anyway to mount LVM stored on USB drive. I have a bunch from Fedora 8 I need to get access to. //ARNE - strange, as it is coming and going somewhat - now it didn't take a whole day for firefox to get page. The touchpad behaves somewhat, and so on. Then other times, all you can do is power off when everything is stuck.
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PID TTY TIME CMD
1 ? 00:00:01 init
2 ? 00:00:00 kthreadd
3 ? 00:00:00 migration/0
4 ? 00:00:03 ksoftirqd/0
5 ? 00:00:00 watchdog/0
6 ? 00:00:00 migration/1
7 ? 00:00:02 ksoftirqd/1
8 ? 00:00:00 watchdog/1
9 ? 00:00:15 events/0
10 ? 00:00:16 events/1
11 ? 00:00:00 khelper
80 ? 00:00:00 kintegrityd/0
81 ? 00:00:00 kintegrityd/1
83 ? 00:00:00 kblockd/0
84 ? 00:00:00 kblockd/1
86 ? 00:00:00 kacpid
87 ? 00:00:00 kacpi_notify
194 ? 00:00:00 cqueue
198 ? 00:00:00 ata/0
199 ? 00:00:03 ata/1
200 ? 00:00:00 ata_aux
202 ? 00:00:00 ksuspend_usbd
207 ? 00:00:00 khubd
210 ? 00:00:00 kseriod
267 ? 00:00:00 kswapd0
314 ? 00:00:00 aio/0
315 ? 00:00:00 aio/1
500 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_0
503 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_1
506 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_2
509 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_3
585 ? 00:00:00 kpsmoused
592 ? 00:00:00 kstriped
595 ? 00:00:00 ksnapd
662 ? 00:00:00 kdmflush
663 ? 00:00:00 kdmflush
664 ? 00:00:04 kjournald
791 ? 00:00:00 udevd
1228 ? 00:00:07 scsi_eh_4
1229 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_5
1460 ? 00:00:00 pccardd
1618 ? 00:00:00 kauditd
1839 ? 00:00:00 kmpathd/0
1840 ? 00:00:00 kmpathd/1
1841 ? 00:00:00 kmpath_handlerd
1909 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
2104 ? 00:00:01 kondemand/0
2106 ? 00:00:00 kondemand/1
2188 ? 00:00:00 auditd
2191 ? 00:00:00 audispd
2228 ? 00:00:00 rsyslogd
2244 ? 00:00:06 irqbalance
2256 ? 00:00:00 rpcbind
2274 ? 00:00:00 rpc.statd
2316 ? 00:00:00 rpciod/0
2317 ? 00:00:00 rpciod/1
2330 ? 00:00:00 rpc.idmapd
2361 ? 00:00:02 dbus-daemon
2381 ? 00:00:00 wpa_supplicant
2410 ? 00:00:00 acpid
2424 ? 00:00:03 hald
2429 ? 00:00:00 console-kit-dae
2431 ? 00:00:00 hald-runner
2598 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-gene
2636 ? 00:00:01 hald-addon-inpu
2642 ? 00:00:10 hald-addon-stor
2647 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-cpuf
2648 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi
2710 ? 00:00:00 pcscd
2764 ? 00:00:02 NetworkManager
2781 ? 00:00:00 nm-system-setti
2826 ? 00:00:05 setroubleshootd
3032 ? 00:00:00 bluetoothd
3048 ? 00:00:00 btaddconn
3050 ? 00:00:00 btdelconn
3067 ? 00:00:00 sshd
3089 ? 00:00:00 xinetd
3164 ? 00:00:00 gpm
3183 ? 00:00:00 crond
3202 ? 00:00:04 kerneloops
3230 ? 00:00:00 atd
3245 ? 00:00:00 avahi-daemon
3246 ? 00:00:00 avahi-daemon
3267 ? 00:00:00 cupsd
3312 ? 00:00:00 gdm-binary
3313 tty4 00:00:00 mingetty
3314 tty5 00:00:00 mingetty
3315 tty2 00:00:00 mingetty
3316 tty3 00:00:00 mingetty
3317 tty6 00:00:00 mingetty
3397 ? 00:00:00 gdm-simple-slav
3400 tty1 01:46:40 Xorg
3538 ? 00:00:00 dbus-launch
3702 ? 00:00:00 gdm-session-wor
3734 ? 00:00:00 gnome-keyring-d
3736 ? 00:00:00 gnome-session
3752 ? 00:00:00 dbus-launch
3753 ? 00:00:01 dbus-daemon
3796 ? 00:00:00 im-settings-dae
3798 ? 00:00:00 im-info-daemon
3800 ? 00:00:00 gvfsd
3869 ? 00:00:00 gvfs-fuse-daemo
3928 ? 00:00:00 gconf-im-settin
3930 ? 00:00:09 gconfd-2
3973 ? 00:00:00 gnome-keyring-d
3974 ? 00:00:07 gnome-settings-
3982 ? 00:00:31 metacity
3983 ? 00:00:09 gnome-panel
3984 ? 00:01:26 nautilus
3985 ? 00:00:57 gnome-screensav
3987 ? 00:00:00 bonobo-activati
3991 ? 00:00:01 gnome-power-man
3993 ? 00:00:00 bluetooth-apple
3998 ? 00:00:00 kerneloops-appl
4001 ? 00:00:00 python
4002 ? 00:00:02 nm-applet
4006 ? 00:00:00 imsettings-appl
4007 ? 00:00:00 gpk-update-icon
4025 ? 00:00:03 notification-da
4033 ? 00:00:01 /usr/bin/sealer
4062 ? 00:05:38 pulseaudio
4079 ? 00:00:41 wnck-applet
4081 ? 00:00:00 trashapplet
4083 ? 00:00:00 gvfs-hal-volume
4086 ? 00:00:00 gvfsd-trash
4089 ? 00:00:00 gvfs-gphoto2-vo
4093 ? 00:00:00 gvfsd-burn
4096 ? 00:00:00 gconf-helper
4107 ? 00:00:00 mixer_applet2
4109 ? 00:00:01 clock-applet
4114 ? 00:00:01 gdm-user-switch
4117 ? 00:00:00 notification-ar
4119 ? 00:00:03 tomboy
4129 ? 00:00:00 mount.ntfs-3g
4145 ? 00:00:00 mount.ntfs-3g
4281 ? 01:16:11 gnome-system-mo
5414 ? 00:02:10 transmission
5425 ? 00:00:00 pdflush
5427 ? 00:00:01 pdflush
7150 ? 00:00:28 evince
7371 ? 00:00:22 gnome-terminal
7373 ? 00:00:00 gnome-pty-helpe
7374 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
8070 ? 00:00:00 dbus-launch
8071 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
8423 ? 00:00:00 dhclient
8501 ? 00:00:00 sendmail
8503 ? 00:00:00 sendmail
8618 ? 00:00:31 gedit
8640 ? 00:00:00 gvfsd-computer
8970 ? 00:00:00 run-mozilla.sh
8987 ? 00:00:28 firefox
9110 pts/1 00:00:00 bash
9140 pts/1 00:00:00 su
9146 pts/1 00:00:00 bash
9167 pts/1 00:00:00 ps