You're right, I know. I played with Gentoo a few years ago and it was the most difficult flavor I've tried to use. But it's downloading now and I'll give it another whirl. I've not heard of CentOS before so I'll look that one up as well. Red Hat was my first Linux experience a really long time ago; I hardly remember it!
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Ubuntu on Dell Dimension 9200 running slow
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You're right, I know. I played with Gentoo a few years ago and it was the most difficult flavor I've tried to use. But it's downloading now and I'll give it another whirl. I've not heard of CentOS before so I'll look that one up as well. Red Hat was my first Linux experience a really long time ago; I hardly remember it!
CentOS is just another name for Red Hat Enterprise Linux without the support from RedHat.
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I loaded 12.10, 32-bit back on it. I am now thinking that it could be a graphics driver issue that is causing the GUI to run as slow as it is. Plus I am getting an awful lot of artifacts on the screen.
I've been searching around for the drivers for an ATI Radeon X1300. I found a distro for Linux on their site, but it's a really old one and I'm having problems getting it to load.
I found something on the Ubuntuforums.org that got me close to installing it, but it still failed.
I've been searching around for the drivers for an ATI Radeon X1300. I found a distro for Linux on their site, but it's a really old one and I'm having problems getting it to load.
I found something on the Ubuntuforums.org that got me close to installing it, but it still failed.
That (bolded above) is because I am a moron!
I mistakenly thought the card was an ATI and since I gave up on this box, I loaded Windows 7 back on it and found that the graphics card is an nVidia GeForce 7300 LE. And there are Linux drivers on their site for it too.
I think I'll give it yet another try on Monday.
Ah the infamous error ID-10T!That (bolded above) is because I am a moron!
That's one reason my linux boxes tend to be server edition, no GUI.
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Ah the infamous error ID-10T!
That's one reason my linux boxes tend to be server edition, no GUI.
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Yup! If my command lines skills were much better, I'd have no problem not using a GUI; but alas, they lack severely.
Wish I had a recommendation on something with decent web based administration. IMO that's usually all you really need if you don't want to deal with the command line.
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Okay so back on Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit and tried to run the nVidia installer and it said I am running an X server. "Please exit X before installing". How do I do that?
Here is the nVidia download/support page for the driver package.
Here is the nVidia download/support page for the driver package.
You need to stop the service.
I believe you do this by way of
sudo service lightdm stop
See thread http://askubuntu.com/questions/65856/how-does-one-exit-the-x-server
Thanks. However, I've put Win7 back on it. I'll get another Dell PC out later this week and see what happens with it.
I'm still not sure if the problem was graphics related or not. 12.10 kept locking up while trying to install the drivers and such.
Of all the issues I've had working with Ubuntu and Fedora, its been trying to get the video drivers working.
I can empathize with your plight and which is why I'm first playing with the current versions of Ubuntu and Fedora within Vmware before I decide to install them on a boot camp partition
I can empathize with your plight and which is why I'm first playing with the current versions of Ubuntu and Fedora within Vmware before I decide to install them on a boot camp partition
Every problem that crept up I would find a solution for and then while implementing the solution compounded the problems. It's quite frustrating.
You could also try to force it to come up in runlevel 3.
I'd do this by modifying /etc/initttab, but there has to be a GUI way to do this.
http://www.linux.com/news/enterpris...duction-to-services-runlevels-and-rcd-scripts
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