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So I finally got linux working. Libranet 2.8.1 and running fluxbox. It is quite a bit slower than XP, though, and I am wondering if this is fixable. I thought fluxbox was supposed to be lightweight and fast!
I push the down button to scroll (in firefox or synaptic, for instance) and by the time it reacts I had pushed it for so long that it scrolls 3 pages past where i wanted to be, and won't react to anything in the meantime, as it scrolls all slowly and chunkily. When I'm in xterm or rxvt and I do an ls of lots of files, it will scroll slowly, then scroll ahead real quickly, then scroll slowly again, very erratically. Any sort of typing seems to have a slow feedback, when it's being especially slow I can type a whole sentence without it showing up on the screen, and then it slowly pops up each letter one by one. And the mouse seems sluggish, too, although I have addressed that in another post; it might be unrelated. (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...84#post1085684)
This is on a Thinkpad 600E
Pentium II 366
something weird like 228 MB of RAM
256 MB swap
4 GB reiserFS partition
Libranet 2.8.1
Very odd, flux + libranet + firefox are all fast applicationsand your PC should run them flawlessly. I'd guess that your problem lays with the wrong usage of video configuration. It has been a while since I last used Libranet, but I believe that at xadminmenu you can configure your display settings.
If not, edit manually the file XF86Config (or XF86Config-4) located at /etc/X11/. Play a bit around with your monitor settings, including refresh rate and dept. Same goes to the amount of video memory and drivers (vesa, vga, etc).
Good luck mate!
P.S: if you Ram memory is wrongly configured (like if you have 256 and only 228 is detected) you can tell lilo the correct amount of Ram during boot time...
P.S2: try running "top" at the command line to see if some program/service is eating you RAM up. If so, killall -9 the process and see if that was the problem...
I don't know libra, and therefore don't know how it
handles dma, but dma being turned off is a common
cause for performance issues ...
hdparm /dev/hda
to see what's set...
Another thing that often happens to notebooks is
problems with the apm-daemon ... have a look
whether apmd is running
ps -A | grep apm
and whether preformance improves without it...
su -c "skill -9 apmd"
Originally posted by Megaman X P.S: if you Ram memory is wrongly configured (like if you have 256 and only 228 is detected) you can tell lilo the correct amount of Ram during boot time...
I did some experiments and figured it out:
32 MB base + 128 MB card + 64 MB card = 224 MB
:-) free says 224044, so that is working correctly.
Quote:
P.S2: try running "top" at the command line to see if some program/service is eating you RAM up. If so, killall -9 the process and see if that was the problem...
It has 4 "firefox-bin"s that are using up 16.2% of memory each. Is this normal?
Originally posted by Megaman X If not, edit manually the file XF86Config (or XF86Config-4) located at /etc/X11/. Play a bit around with your monitor settings, including refresh rate and dept. Same goes to the amount of video memory and drivers
I added the mouse resolution and samplerate, but otherwise the same as default. (And my silly samplerate didn't change anything. It was slow before I added it.)
It is a thinkpad LCD monitor, so the horizontal sync and such dont really apply, do they?
I switched the driver(?) to standard VESA 256 color 1024x768 and it seems to scroll faster but of course looks like crap. I am reading things about the framebuffer. How do I turn that on or check if it is on? I will keep trying other modes...
Yeah, the standard VESA driver is noticeably faster (though still choppy), with the same resolution and bit depth. That seems intuitively wrong, though. The thinkpad has a neomagic board so wouldn't the neomagic driver be faster? So maybe it would be faster but there's a configuration issue?
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