061202 20:31 by iDRMRSR

OK guys, I tried all the various tweaks and all I got was SLOWER and SLOWER.

I did manage to get my cached reads up to 1019 MB/S whilst at the same time the buffered reads came in at an astonishing 3.48 MB/S (eg, floppy disk speeds) with some sprinkling of parms.

I even managed to get my system to TOTALLY FREEZE with one invocation which happily I forget now. Gosh, that's becoming a nauseating PATTERN with Linux. Remove one card in the house of cards and it comes SHATTERING DOWN.

The other funny thing is this. Whilst KDE is rilly attractive as an operating environment IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SET THE SCREEN RESOLUTION AND SIZE! KDE simply picks something out of its blue-ish ASS and sets it there.

There IS no way to change this. I require 1280 by 768. GNOME lets me set its brownish ass this way, and all is good. From that point, all the fonts are set at 10 points, all is readable with these old eyes, etc etc etc.

I then switch into KDE and the fonts are like HALF the size I'm used to. This is because I believe the screen resolution is now 1600x900, which is appropriate to the desired aspect ratio BUT WAY TO TINY font wize. Yeah, I could go and set everything to 12 point fonts etc etc but that's a lot of setting in EVERY FRIGGING app I launch....sheesh. And I did a GOOGLE for setting up the KDE desktop size, and all I can do is CONFIRM nobody has a way to do this.

That's Linux for ye. You only get a PARTIALLY baked cake with icing covering only PART of it. Oh, if you manage to graft the GNOME cake with the KDE cake, I suppose you get a whole VIRTUAL cake that's to your liking but...

OH IS THIS FRUSTRATING.

Still I've got nothing to do with my life besides this so I might as well see how many more egregious things I can do to this old system in the name of seeing if there's a way to get Linux to work for ME better than Windows ME for example (which is what this box LAST had on it).

PS I don't seem to be able to find a stinking VOLUME control under KDE, which is necessary because Linux, upon booting, seems to want to turn off one channel (l/r) or the other automagically, which is again VERY FRUSTRATING. At least with GNOME I could jiggle the volume control and the missing channel would come back on, but with KDE, I can't even find anything like a volume control.

That's prolly because the volume setting utility is named KQZVVL or something arcane following the usual cutesy poo way of calling things.

ARRRGHHH....

I will report more as I continue to make my blood boil here. And I will TRY not to post HTML from UBUNTU if ever I figure out HOW NOT TO DO THAT. PAN from GNOME was posting in plain text, but from KDE something made it decide that HTML posts were better, and I canna find a knob to turn that option off ANYWHERE. Nor can I find out why PAN runs differently under KDE than GNOME.

Oh my this is like trying to fit your limp dick into a keyhole for pleasure on a cold night. I begin to think Linux is for masochists only.