On 23 Dec 2003 21:37:39 -0500 Stephen <roulton623-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

I didn't know what the summary on the Mandrake 9.1 was supposed to do since I got a blank screen on that particular spot in the setup where my installation locked up.

The question I have is there anything in that part of the setup that would cause a lag when starting applications.

You said that is the area where you get to configure hardware that is found and add hardware that wasn't detected. Could there be any thing in there that could be configured wrong to cause my problem.

If there is then my problem could be solved by configuring what ever it is that might be configured wrong.

My first guess, and it's a guess, would be the X configuration. If it doesn't properly configure your X server, with proper settings in XF86Config-4 for resolution and such, it *could* result in the slowness and lockups you are experiencing. One place to check for errors is /var/log/XFree86.0.log. IME, that is the only item that *never* gets config'd automatically on an install, with good reason. It wants you to decide on res, colour-depth, etc. What type of video card are you using, anyway? One sol'n I've seen for a few people using Nvidia cards is to turn off ACPI. This has gotten rid of some hard lockups and slow response in *some* cases. In /etc/lilo.conf, you will see the first section is for your default kernel entry, and there should be a line like this: append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off resume=/dev/hda5 splash=silent" yours might be different, but try setting acpi=off, then run "lilo", and reboot (all this as root of course). I'm still bettin' this is a hardware issue. Either you've got a bad stick of RAM or the vid card mem or GPU is on the fritz. As I think someone else on here pointed out, Linux can be a lot more demanding on hardware, or at least a lot less forgiving when it's not at it's best. Someone mentioned "memtest", did you investigate that? In any case, Happy Holidays and all that! -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." -- Hunter S. Thompson -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml