kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Define "slow". What specifically is slow? Window creation? Menu > response? Window movement? Program launch? Specific applications? Any graphic action such as Window creation, Menu response, Window movement > > What's a typical application load? What window managers have you tried? > What's response like running twm with a couple of xterms?
it doesn't particularly matter what window manager it has running, twm does the same thing. It's not lagging the system itself, that's still performing beautifully, but the graphics can't keep up. even a ls -l in an xterm can't keep up. Here's a good example, if i use xdm, you can sit there and watch as it takes 1-2 seconds to place the background image in xdm on the screen. > What's your available memory? 64 MB is a bit light for a modern Linux > workstation, window manager, desktop environment, and buggy bloatware > such as Netscape or StarOffice. We're moving into the windows world with linux i see, I have a machine here with only 32mb ram that does better than this thing. > How much swap do you have available? on that machine, 128mb > What resolution and color depth are you running at? (The output of your > X session might be helpful here). Usually depth of 16, at 1024x768 > > > Peter. > > # File generated by xf86config. > > <...> > > > Section "Device" > > Identifier "SiS 6326" > > VendorName "Unknown" > > BoardName "Unknown" > > #VideoRam 8192 > ^^^^^^^^^ > You might want to uncomment this and/or insert an appropriate value. tried that. makes no difference. > > > Option "no_accel" # Use this if acceleration is causing problems > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > This may be slowing your card response. I've no particular experience > with this card. Refer to docs or check comp.os.linux.hardware or > c.o.l.x tried that as well. makes no difference > > <...> > > > # The accelerated servers (S3, Mach32, Mach8, 8514, P9000, AGX, W32, Mach64) > > > > Section "Screen" > > Driver "accel" > > Device "SiS 6326" > > Monitor "My Monitor" > > DefaultColorDepth 16 > > Subsection "Display" > > Depth 8 > > Modes "640x480" > > ViewPort 0 0 > > EndSubsection > > Subsection "Display" > > Depth 16 > > Modes "1024x768" > > ViewPort 0 0 > > EndSubsection > > Subsection "Display" > > Depth 24 > > Modes "640x480" > > ViewPort 0 0 > > EndSubsection > > Subsection "Display" > > Depth 32 > > Modes "640x480" > > ViewPort 0 0 > > EndSubsection > > EndSection > > Are you running at 640x480 or 1024x768, or some other resolution? > Usually at 1024x768 in with depth of 16. But, even at 640x480 it makes no difference. I'll stress this again. _It Doesn't slow the actual system down_. all applications perform as smooth as they do on my 433. Just the video can't keep up with what the system is doing, which seems strange to me. Even to the point if i do ls -l in an xterm, the video can't keep up with the listing. Peter.
