small linux os, fast, youtube compatible, with some kind of office

snowday · 11-22-2013, 09:06 AM

We need to know the GPU to have any chance of helping you. If you don't know the chipset, you can find out with the terminal command 'lspci'.

If the GPU is inferior/broken, or if you aren't using the correct driver, then videos will lag. Linux software cannot magically repair old/broken/misconfigured hardware.

Musmula · 11-22-2013, 09:44 AM

I am aware that linux isn't from the 31st century (like for example me) but I can tell you this: it will be used on starships...

now seriously, here is what my wizard PC says:

Code:

sh-4.1# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661FX/M661FX/M661MX Host (rev 11)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS AGP Port (virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS964 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 36)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 01)
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] C-Media AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 90)
00:05.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] RAID bus controller 180 SATA/PATA  [SiS] (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (rev 01)
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (Secondary) (rev 01)

snowday · 11-22-2013, 09:55 AM

Regarding your ATI RV280 video card,

Quote:

These cards are no longer actively supported by AMD as of the 8.28.8 fglrx driver. Unless you run an ancient distro, using the open source drivers is your only option.

Source: http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Hardware

Musmula · 11-22-2013, 10:17 AM

puppy looks ancient, and it was made for ancient PC's

Musmula · 11-22-2013, 10:25 AM

I'm not really sure what you mean't with your last post, use intern instead extern???

snowday · 11-22-2013, 12:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Musmula

I'm not really sure what you mean't with your last post, use intern instead extern???

If you are referring to me and my last post, what I meant was: "Your video is lagging because your GPU is old and unsupported."

Please let me know if I can clarify that further for you.

Musmula · 11-22-2013, 01:23 PM

ARE YOU DAMN TROLLING ME?!!! If not I apologize for the outburst, I got that part of your post, I wanted to make clear that you say: "'Your video is lagging because your GPU is old and unsupported.' and you shall use your intern GPU, which is also laging and then see if there is any hope for THAT GPU"

I've got to go to sleep, but tomorrow I'll put the same command into the terminal and check for support on that particular GPU, and after that I'll ask you what you think about it (since you obviously know where to look for the problem)

tnx in advance

rokytnji · 11-22-2013, 02:55 PM

Quote:

My dads pc has 2.53 Ghz cpu, 1.25 GB RAM, a poor intergrated gpu, 120 GB HDD.

I made this video on lower specs than that. By the way. Movies don't lag for me on lesser specification hardware.
Like snowpine said though. I used the Radeon Open Source Driver for the Emachine Desktop Computer I fished out
of a Dumpster.

http://www.screenr.com/bMh8

If Interested

Good luck with it.