Trying To Find The RIGHT Linux Distro

[budman7]

See this page for help with getting graphics to work better.

[logicalstatus]

KDE COMPONENTS--> SERVICE MANAGER only works for KDE services, you want to stop Kernel services. I think sabayon uses the same paths as Gentoo so try to login to a terminal as root or use sudo and type "rc-update show" This will list the services set to automatically start.
type "rc-update del [SERVICE] [GROUP] where service is the name of the service you want to stop, and group is the group it is in (eg, boot, default, nonetwork)
adding a service is identical to above, replacing "del" with "add"

Ok, thanks a bunch for your help. I am going to try that when I get off of work tonight. And I guess I can probably google services if I am not sure what they do. Ill update my progress later

[techzilla]

what wireless chipset do u have???

[logicalstatus]

Ok I tried the command to list services and I think may be in over my head It listed a group of BOOT services and DEFAULT services. I googled a few, I think if i remove acpid service it may speed me up; but then again I dont know. Here they are:

BOOT

acpid
bootmisc
checkfs
checkroot
clock
console font
hostname
hotplug
keymaps
localmount
modules
net.lo
rwlogin
serial
urandom
x-setup

DEFAULT

alsasound
avahi-daemon
dbus
dhcdbd
gpm
hald
local
netmount
networkmanager
splash
syslog-ng
vixie-cron
xdm

Keep in mind I do no networking and dont plan to in the future. I only download, surf, IM, game every now and then, listen to music/radio, watch movies. I don't run any servers or do remote assistance or connect multiple PCs. What services should I take off?

Techzilla, my wireless card is a Broadcom BCM 4306 802.11 b/g. And my computer model is HP ze4900 (upgraded ram). If that did not answer your question then I'm afraid I don't know what chipset I have, sorry.
Thanks for the replies!

[MikeTbob]

To tell you the truth, you don't have a whole lot of unneeded services, you could remove acpi, it's mostly for sleep/hibernating, I don't use it myself because I get some errors when I do. I think you can remove rwlogin safely.

I am guessing that you have the correct Video drivers installed or beryl/compiz would not work correctly. Post the output of this command please

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Driver

So you might consider removing unused/unneeded kernel modules.

lsmod

will show you which modules are active, but you need to Google those to make sure you don't need them.
EDIT: to remove unneeded modules use the rmmod command

rmmod modulename

How slow is your machine? On a scale of one to ten? Do you have plenty of swap space and RAM? Issue the free command to check swap and free memory.

free