Indeed, I had a coworker test this by trying Snow Leopard's Safari with and without a monitor attached, and sure enough, fast with, slow without. No monitor here though. I tried a DVI-to-VGA adapter but that didn't help. I'll look through what others suggested here for solutions.
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 06:56:28AM +0100, John Andr? Netland wrote: Hi, Sounds like you do not have a display connected to your Mac Mini. This will cause your Mac to be slow in the way you describe. You might connect a video connector for Mac Mini, and the issue should disappear. Hope this helps, John Andr? On 29. okt. 2009, at 00.48, Doug Lee wrote: > > Last Friday I installed Snow Leopard as an upgrade of Leopard on my > Mac Mini. I also installed the newer Xcode from the Snow Leopard CD > over the Xcode I already had. I finally reinstalled the Ports > package, though I did not recompile all my ports yet. > > But I got a number of very nasty surprises that seem uncommon, so I'm > hoping someone out there has an idea what on Earth hit the fan here. > I have tested the below findings with no ports running as far as I > know. > > Problems include: > > 1. Safari is hopelessly slow! Navigating from one site to another, > such as by typing in the address field, can take a full minute, > during which VoiceOver occasionally says, "Safari busy." Similarly, > getting to the menu bar with VO+M and moving among menu bar options > with arrows can take up to a full minute per keystroke. > > 2. Typing into any edit control I tried, mostly TextEdit and Skype > chat boxes, seems to cause the Mac to get behind, with or (I think) > without VoiceOver running. With VO running, if I type reasonably > fast, VO loses the ability to say the characters I type, goes silent > for a moment, then starts saying "busy" once for each key I hit. I'm > used to hearing individual characters as feedback against errors, and > VO under Leopard handled that just fine. > > 3. Though some people claim that commands like VO+F2 for window name > and VO+Shift+F3 for Cursor Tracking toggle still work in Snow Leopard, > I (and one friend) find these commands do nothing now. I believe the > Commands help still documents them though. Removing and making VO > rebuild all preference files did not solve this. > > Any pointers will be most graciously accepted. This machine has a 300 > gig drive with only 30 gig free, and I have as yet no device elsewhere > with enough free space to afford me the option of a complete > backup/format/restore. > > > -- > Doug Lee d...@dlee.org http://www.dlee.org > SSB BART Group doug....@ssbbartgroup.com > http://www.ssbbartgroup.com > "When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you." > --African Proverb > > > -- Doug Lee d...@dlee.org http://www.dlee.org SSB BART Group doug....@ssbbartgroup.com http://www.ssbbartgroup.com The very smart may feel they have nothing to learn from anyone; The very wise will find something to learn from everyone. (7/14/01) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
