New to linux questions

[Michael Sears]

More wonky things afoot.  It has always taken a long time (5-6minutes)
to load to the desktop from startup, but today hit close to 10 minutes.
This seems really wierd to me since I really haven't put much on the
Hard drive.  My intermitant sound gremlin is back and now there is no
sound again. (ATI IXP onboard sound).

thnx,
Mike

On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 13:36 -0500, Michael Sears wrote:
> Howdy folks,
> 
> I am running a gateway 7120 laptop and just put Gutsy (64bit) on it.
> The specs are AMD64 3400+ running an ati radeon xpress 200m graphics
> card.  
> 
> Now the issues; I managed to get the wireless card working by using
> restricted drivers.  Did something similar to the graphics card.  When
> I checked for, I believe, direct draw capabilities before goofing with
> xgl, it came up as yes, after installing x-server, or something
> similar named, it says direct draw is a no.  I managed to monkey
> something and got it to allow desktop effects, though now the whole
> thing is crawling.  Being super new to linux in general, what commands
> should I be using in terminal and what am I looking for in the
> resultant information that can help me straighten out my graphics
> problem?  I’ve tried so many tutorials that I’ve actually lost my
> place and am going in circles.
> 
> Any help about which direction to head would be great.
> 
> Mike
>