Your system is too slow

[Michael Hennebry]

This is a corrected version oof a slightly earlier post.

On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:

>> On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, john wendel wrote:
>> 
>>> On 09/19/2009 07:17 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> 
>>>> More precisely, is there an nvidia driver
>>>> that does not experience extreme slowness?
>>>> 
>>>> I've had trouble getting flash to play right
>>>> either through firefox or through mplayer.
>>>> Most recently mplayer told me that my system was to slow.
>>>> It made suggestions that were scrolled
>>>> off the screen by many cpoies of
>>>>> AO: [pulse] pa_stream_get_latency() failed: Connection terminated
>>>>> AO: [pulse] pa_stream_write() failed: Connection terminated.4% 1312 0
>> 
>>> [1] Replace the nouveau driver with the "evil" Nvidia driver
> 
> I did that:

> Installed:
>  kmod-nvidia-PAE.i686 0:185.18.36-1.fc11.1
> 
> Dependency Installed:
>  kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i686.PAE.i686 0:185.18.36-1.fc11.1
>  livna-config-display.noarch 0:0.0.23-1.fc11
>  rhpxl.i586 0:1.12-2.fc11
>  system-config-display.noarch 0:1.1.3-2.fc11
>  xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.i586 0:185.18.36-1.fc11
>  xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i586 0:185.18.36-1.fc11
> 
> Complete!
> 
>>> [2] mplayer "-ao alsa"
> 
> I did this, but mplayer still craps out on me.
> mplayer -nosound still works, but quietly.

Rebooting failed.
AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRG

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 F9.
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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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."