this is actually appearing to be a somewhat common problem. i have been experiencing the same problem with a Athlon 700, 128M pc100 ram and a Matrox G400 16M video card. performance is much like you describe. an earlier post suggests a fix : (for the K7M though) http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/05/31/18422 50&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread &pid=15#183 i would definitely go over your BIOS settings very closely. so far i've had no luck getting the performance i hear about with an Athlon and a G400 under XFree86; but i'm still working feverishly on it. i also suggest getting out of XFree86 and doing some compiling from the console, see if it takes a long time to compile things that should be relatively quick (for example, some people posted about compiling the Linux kernel is ~4mins. see if you compare, if not, it's probably a much deeper problem than XFree86.
i also went through this process recently in Austin, TX and had roughly the same experience. i was applying for very Linux oriented jobs, so i thought StarOffice or plain text files would be appropriate, nope; i got just as far as he did. if it's not in Word'97+ format the middle man thinks you don't know what you are doing. i thought making an online resume, offering the resume in the different file formats, would be a much more attractive resume. i found that few people ever went to the url after i gave it to them and they said they would, or they didn't understand the concept of a resume being online. you just have to deal with it when dealing with middle-man agencies -- i choose to avoid them and plan to never deal with them again!
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this is not what he meant. he meant the LoC
should archive Usenet. nothing to do with
Deja except maybe buying their archives to
add to the LoC's.
this is actually appearing to be a somewhat common problem. i have been experiencing the same problem with a Athlon 700, 128M pc100 ram and a Matrox G400 16M video card. performance is much like you describe. an earlier post suggests a fix : (for the K7M though) http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/05/31/18422 50&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread &pid=15#183 i would definitely go over your BIOS settings very closely. so far i've had no luck getting the performance i hear about with an Athlon and a G400 under XFree86; but i'm still working feverishly on it. i also suggest getting out of XFree86 and doing some compiling from the console, see if it takes a long time to compile things that should be relatively quick (for example, some people posted about compiling the Linux kernel is ~4mins. see if you compare, if not, it's probably a much deeper problem than XFree86.
i also went through this process recently in
Austin, TX and had roughly the same experience.
i was applying for very Linux oriented jobs,
so i thought StarOffice or plain text files
would be appropriate, nope; i got just as far
as he did. if it's not in Word'97+ format
the middle man thinks you don't know what
you are doing.
i thought making an online resume, offering
the resume in the different file formats,
would be a much more attractive resume.
i found that few people ever went to the url
after i gave it to them and they said they
would, or they didn't understand the concept
of a resume being online.
you just have to deal with it when dealing
with middle-man agencies -- i choose to
avoid them and plan to never deal with them
again!