Fresh Install 201204 Extremely Slow

[AlphaSierra]

Hi everyone. I just tried switching to LMDE from Ubuntu, and the results have been rather poor. I'm running Cinnamon currently, however the results are the same under MATE. For example, it took about five minutes to load firefox, and during that time the system totally locked up. While trying to open up Synaptic I was treated to a slideshow of my screen being progressively greyed out. There's also a horrible beep noise at the login screen, however I think I found a fix for that.

I'm just not sure why it's running so horribly slow. Even after I got PAE running nothing changed. I'm running 32bit LMDE using Cinnamon as my environment. My laptop specs are an Intel Core2 Duo T9400 at 2.53Ghz for the CPU, and 4GB of ram.

Has anyone else noticed this problem?

[zerozero]

can you share with us some of your system specs

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inxi -Fc 0

also, open a terminal, type

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htop

and see if any process is hogging the system down.

[AlphaSierra]

Nothing seemed to be hogging up the system. Highest single program using memory was at 1.2%.

Here are my system stats:

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System:    Host alpha_laptop Kernel 3.2.0-2-686-pae i686 (32 bit) Distro Linux Mint Debian Edition
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core2 Duo T9400 (-MCP-) cache 6144 KB flags (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx) bmips 10104.3
           Clock Speeds: (1) 800.00 MHz (2) 800.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card nVidia G96 [GeForce 9600M GT] X.org 1.11.4 Res: 210x65 Gfx Data: N/A out of X
Audio:     Card Intel 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller driver snd_hda_intel BusID: 00:1b.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.24
Network:   Card-1 Realtek RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller driver r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI at port 3000 BusID: 05:00.0
           Card-2 Intel PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection driver iwlwifi v: in-tree: BusID: 02:00.0
Disks:     HDD Total Size: 1321.3GB (-) 1: /dev/sdb WDC_WD1002FAEX 1000.2GB
           2: /dev/sda FUJITSU_MHZ2320B 320.1GB 3: USB /dev/sdc RotoDrive_401B 1.0GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 59G used: 5.2G (10%) fs: rootfs ID:/ size: 59G used: 5.2G (10%) fs: ext4
           ID:swap-1 size: 1.15GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 61.0C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes 132 Uptime 5 min Memory 169.2/4047.2MB Runlevel 2 Client Shell inxi 1.4.23


It's gotten worse. It totally locked up when I tried to start firefox, or the terminal. Same problem using MATE. Had to CTRL+ALT+F2 to get the info.

[zerozero]

the system should be more than enough to run that, no doubt there.
let's just test one thing (a looong shot) try to remove the battery, and start again, how does the system reacts?

[AlphaSierra]

the system should be more than enough to run that, no doubt there.
let's just test one thing (a looong shot) try to remove the battery, and start again, how does the system reacts?

It hung while waiting for /dev to populate.

[zerozero]

just googling that brings several hits related with udev, hybrid graphic cards (well, what i saw)
it looks that your hardware doesn't like debian testing
https://www.google.com/search?q=waiting+for+%2Fdev+to+populate&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-nightly#q=debian+waiting+for+/dev+to+populate&hl=en&client=firefox-nightly&hs=TEj&tbo=1&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&prmdo=1&output=search&source=lnt&tbs=qdr:m&sa=X&ei=VUGwT_2aA-mQ0AXE05G0CQ&ved=0CAcQpwUoBA&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=1641ae474a1dd5eb&biw=1241&bih=800

[AlphaSierra]

Huh...well that bites. What options do I have then?