Your system is too slow

[Michael Hennebry]

On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Robin Laing wrote:

> Michael Hennebry wrote:
>> On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:
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>>> On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:
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>>>> On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, john wendel wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 09/19/2009 07:17 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>>> 
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>> 
>> Eventually I did a cntrl-alt-F2 to get a console,
>> logged in as root and did a yum erase kmod-nvidia-PAE .
>> Rebooting still failed.
>> On my next attempt, I picked the second option on the grub menu.
>> This time, rebooting worked.
>> 
>> Apparently, if I want a system that's not too slow and can play
>> flash without mplayer hanging, I'll need to go back to F10.

I'd meant F9.  I'd never used F10.
I don't reinstall more often than I have to.
Something always goes wrong and I spend few
days or weeks wanting to kill someting.

>> I certainly don't want to go through that mess again.
>> 
>> Gawd I hate it when things just don't work.
>> 
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>
> I have noticed that mplayer says this for almost all the videos that I play 
> on F11.  They play well on F10 and in VLC on F11.  I am wondering if it is an 
> mplayer fault and thus for discussion om rpmfusion's list.

In my case, the statement is preceeded by crappy video,

> I do notice that in F11, my system disk access seams to just hang for a 
> second in many different programs.  It has really become an issue since I 
> have started to stream video to my PS3.
>
> Thinking as I write this, I find that every time I run mplayer on my home 
> machine (F11) the video doesn't start right away.  Yet in F10, it starts 
> right away using the same video.  This is when mplayer will say that my 
> system is to slow.  The only difference between the machines is I am running 
> RAID 1 at home.

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Michael   hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
Optimist:   The glass is half full.
Engineer:   The glass is twice as big as it needs to be."