YDL 2.3 + KDE . . . . slow?

[Nathan A. McQuillen]

I have noticed this. Wallstreet PB G3, installed 2.3 yesterday, lots of
slow starts & slow refreshes. I recall being impressed by Konqueror's
speed on my beige G3 last year or so, and this has definitely been
disappointing. Switching to 24-bit color has helped, I think, as has
changing the themes to KDE defaults (as well as being far better looking
than the WinME-ish default from the install - ugh!) But it's still pretty
sluggish.

(Caveat Lector: I have not played with the described install at ALL, and
it's running on a castoff machine that may have any number of hardware
issues. And in general I've been quite impressed with this build, once I
got it to install <wince>.)

- N

On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Roger Chrisman wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> [ I posted this on Friday and Jim on a Powerbook 667mhz G4 and Thomas on an
> iMac DV replied that they too have this SLOWLY opening KDE apps problem
> with YDL 2.3. But no body has spoken up what the slowdown might be. Any
> ideas? Any suggestions? ].
>
> I upgraded from YDL 2.1 to 2.3 and suddenly KDE apps take 30+ seconds to open
> -- Trash, Konqueror, Konsol and Configuration Panel, specifically are all
> taking way longer to open with YDL 2.3 than with YDL 2.1 (I haven't tried the
> other apps yet).
>
> Anyone else have this problem?
>
> Any idea what is causing the slow down?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Roger
>
> My details:
> .......
> PowerBook 333MHz G3 bronze (1999-2000, no Firewire)
> - installed YDL 2.3 "everything" (1.8 GB).
> - had the slow KDE with both of the following X configurations:
>       1) 1024 x 768, 16 bit color, Acceleration ON, X affects set to 50%
>       2) 1024 x 768, 16 bit color, Acceleration OFF, X affects set minimum
> - Error message on boot (into text mode):
>       ntpd failed
> - Error message on startx:
>       sound dev not found, routing to dev/null
> - Can't see this being related, but in case it is.. bootup does NOT set
>      Hostname to the string, "G3", that I put into /etc/HOSTNAME. Instead
>      bootup is continues setting Hostname to "localhost.localdomain".
>
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