Michael P. Soulier wrote: > So, I tried FC3 on my Sony VAIO, pcg-sr33. I noticed that the > performance wasn't great, and then I tried to do a yum update. The disk > thrashed so much that nothing on the screen would refresh. I finally had > to power it down. Did you try running it in text-mode (Ctrl-Alt-F1)? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland