On Friday 11 December 2009, Tim wrote: >On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 13:51 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Would the bios drive order translation account for the slowness of the >> F12 system? It is intolerably slow when multitasking, often taking 30 >> seconds to a minute to close a window if the package manager is also >> running. > >The BIOS will be used to read the drive to begin booting a system, but >Linux uses its own drivers post-boot. So the problem would be >elsewhere. > >Very slow graphics smacks of other issues: Video drivers, or even >networking (name resolution, chiefly). > It wasn't just slow graphics Tim. It was ssssssssssssssssslllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! However that might be a clue of sorts as it had to search and find my router to even get a network connection & use dhcp to get an ip address. I have been using static hosts based addressing on the local net here for a decade, and its NOT on the 192.168.1 subnet. But I didn't try to kill nm forever and reconfigure the networking for static as it would have taken several hours at the speed it was running. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> The price of success in philosophy is triviality. -- C. Glymour. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
