I'm using fc2 right now at work, i tried to install it at home (i already have fc1 on a laptop and it works really fine) but i discovered that the new distro is hopelessly slow...
I've a PIII 1000 with 256 Mb RAM and it's impossible to run fedora. Many
times kde crashes withouth reason, Mozilla starts in 10 (i'm not joking)
10 minutes...
I believe the problem is Xorg, anyone has an idea on how to optimize it? In this way i can't simply use the laptop, it's the slowest machine i've ever seen! :(
Your results are not typical. I have been using FC2 with acceptably good performance on a Celeron 466MHz with 196MB RAM today and it wasn't painful to use.
It is probably an isolated problem within the kernel or xorg with a specific hardware component. Can you please report the following information to Bugzilla against the "distribution" component and CC me.
1) Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and comment out the "dri" line. Any better behavior? Does KDE still crash? I have seen some strange problems with DRI and KDE crashing during the FC2 development cycle...
2) Attach "lspci -n" and "lscpi -vvv" to the report.
3) dmesg > dmesg.txt and bzip2 compress that, then attach it.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-May/msg04549.html
4) Also link to your original post in the mailing list in the report so others can see where your problem report originated.
Warren Togami wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx
