Re: GUI is killing me

[ABrady <xunil kc rr com>]

On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 14:43:46 -0800
"Tony" <bent_diver hotmail com> wrote:

> Hi, I'm new at this, and if things keep up like they have been going,
> i'm gonna go groveling back to Mr. Gates. Got a sucessfull install of
> RH 8, got to the GUI log in screen, and after it validates the
> password, and goes to the Red Hat splash screen, the system hangs.
> this happens regardless of how i log in (root or user) i can get a
> terminal windows in failsafe mode complete with mouse and working
> scroll wheel. Please help!. by the way it is an old Athlon 600 with
> about 400megs of ram, and a tiny 3.2 gig HD with a viper 770 TNT2 card
> in it. -Tony

How long have you waited for it to stop hanging? I could be several
minutes before it responds again, depending on which WM you get and
particularly the first time through since it has to create a lot of
things.

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