Mandriva slow

gla3dr

gla3dr

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I just installed Mandriva Linux Spring 2010 64 bit on my laptop and it is running slow. When dragging windows around, there is a trail left behind of the window being dragged. Also, when closing windows or scrolling, the change on the screen appears to refresh from the top of the screen and moving downward, instead of the window instantly disappearing or scrolling smoothly.

I am dual booting it w/ Windows 7. To install, I booted the laptop from the disk that I had made of the Mandriva ISO, then went through all the steps of the installer. For partitioning, I chose shrinking the windows partition and made a new linux partition, which is 32 GB.

My laptop is an Asus G73JH-A1. The specs for the G73JH-A2 can be found here:
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=5571&review=asus+g73+g73jh

The A1 has identical specs except it comes with blu-ray.

I would think that this laptop should be able to handle Mandriva with no troubles at all, so have I done something wrong while installing Mandriva, or are there some settings that should be adjusted? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
gla3dr
 
More then likely it might not support your hardware, don't know much about Mandriva but you could try a different distribution like ubuntu, suse, mint or even red hat. I know Ubuntu, suse and mint have excellent hardware support being that they are all based on the Debian package.

If you are comfortable with Linux then I would even suggest Arch Linux.
 
May be a stupid question,But have you had Mandriva search for updates for drivers for your Laptop?

Have you tried the new Ubuntu X64 bit...its awesome,I think you would be better off with Ubuntu..its support is also much bigger ;)
 
I guess you could, if the maker of the graphics card has drivers for linux. Check Asus' website first, then if they don't have it, you could find out who made your card and see if you can get a linux driver from them for that model. When you get it, you may have to do some terminal work to get it going, but it should work in the end. Ubuntu will do this all automatically, though, with no user input except saying yes to the prompt if it shows up.
 
Well it turns out all I had to do was install the "ATI Proprietary Driver."

Thanks for all the suggestions.
 
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