I'm not ignoring you, I'm busy. I'll get some performance tips out tonight.

Heres my Issue now, I upgraded the ram in the PC (the BIOS is giving me an start up error stating that one of the DIMM'S is Out of REV ) I also installed a Different video card in this machine, now when SUSE loads it goes to the login screen and when i type in KDE it fails- something about Xset faild or something

put the old video card back in and im back up and running, not sure if i should worry about that bios error at startup.

System Seems better with the additional 128 memory

RAM is pretty critical in a *nix system. That will make a big difference.

As for the video card, what kind of chipsets are on the two cards? If they use different driver then X will fail to start until you have it redetect the card.

One was an ATI 8mb... the one that was in the system was an Nvidia TNT 32mb. I didnt know that the TNT had more ram before I pulled it.

I could still use some performance tips for this 500mhz Pent. III with 256 Ram and 40gig HD. Vid Card has 32Meg ram on it

I have also decided to install SUSE on my Laptop, Simplex if your around i have some questions

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...splay.php?f=60

Use the search function, and I bet you answer 99.9% of any questions you ever come up with.

Not to take away from Simplex3's thread, but if you need quick answers and cannot wait, I'd pretty much guarantee any issue you have has already been discussed at LQ.O many times.

I ran accross that site over the weekend. Cleared up a lot of questions for me. Check it out Slag.

Thanks for the Suggestion and the Confirmation I will be using it more and more.. I think i am bothering the people in the #suse IRC chat

Google (yahoo, whatever) first, THEN head to #suse. As long as you're learning those guys will continue to help. I know because I'm frequently in there. Or at least WAS, I'm around in there less now because of work constraints.

I'll be around here off and on today.

This will never be the end-all be-all for Linux answers. I simply want this thread to serve as a way for people to overcome the fear of starting with Linux. One you get rolling there are far, far better sources of information.

Yeah, I backed up my Info on my laptop and i did a fresh install of Xp last night,


I will be installing suse when I get off of work today.

Looks like I may need to use ndiswraper to make my internal WirelessG work with suse

What card do you have? I thought almost all cards now had pretty good support, then again I haven't used anything other than Proxim, Orinoco, or Intel in a few years.

*grimaces thinking of wrapper*

For me, it's never about better sources, it's always about getting enough to get me started RIGHT NOW. I pretty much never post tech questions, because I'm too impatient to wait for an answer when all you have to do is now how to use a search engine.