On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 06:25:02PM +0000, Peter Good wrote: > 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 > > > # File generated by xf86config. <...> > > > #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 <...> > 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. I'm pretty much out of ideas. Deja/Google search? -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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