[SOLVED] Fedora 12 on a Dell dimension 2400 with 512MB RAM

madsovenielsen · 03-24-2010, 04:31 PM

Hey all.

I am running Fedora 12 on a Dell dimension 2400 with the following hardware:

Intel Celeron 2.40Ghz. 400Mhz FSB
512MB DDR-SDRAM
80GB IDE 7200.0 RPM harddisk
Onboard intel graphics

Is another 512MB RAM going to make a noticeable difference ?
or is the CPU the problem ?

/mads

brucehinrichs · 03-24-2010, 06:25 PM

What's the problem? And imho, doubling your RAM never hurts

LateNighter · 03-24-2010, 07:14 PM

Hi Mad ~
No technical rationale, but I would suspect it's the CPU. Celeron by nature are slower. I've heard 12 is only for the latest/greatest HW.
Since I have the same platform, and having issues with FC-8, I bumped into your post. Did you upgrade to 12, or fresh install? If upgrade, which one?

business_kid · 03-25-2010, 04:32 AM

I'm travelling on old hardware also (Athlon-2.6Ghz/1Gig, with a video card from the last millenium)

Buy some ram now while you can still get it - that's my advice. And don't run latest versions. I'm still running an old nvidia card, and the driver for that ships opengl libs which are now considerably out of date. So I don't make trouble for myself by going for latest versions. I am not updating from Slackware-12.0 until I swap that video card.

madsovenielsen · 03-25-2010, 09:21 AM

brucehinrichs : Its running kinda slow

LateNighter : Its a fresh install

business_kid : Yeah i will buy the RAM. is it not possible to install the opengl lib on slackware 13 ?

/mads

adamk75 · 03-25-2010, 11:22 AM

Slackware 13.0 comes with 3D acceleration for nearly all intel GPUs. What's the full output of 'LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo'?

Adam

madsovenielsen · 03-26-2010, 03:31 AM

Im running Fedora 12. business_kid is the one with slackware

adamk75 · 03-26-2010, 03:47 AM

Well, fedora 12 comes with 3D acceleration for nearly all intel GPUs, too. Every distribution does.

Besides, I was responding to your question:

Quote:

is it not possible to install the opengl lib on slackware 13 ?

Adam

EDIT: Sorry, I'm a fool. I completely misread this thread :-) You can ignore me now.

business_kid · 03-26-2010, 04:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by madsovenielsen

brucehinrichs : Its running kinda slow

business_kid : Yeah i will buy the RAM. is it not possible to install the opengl lib on slackware 13 ?/mads

It may be But Mesa keeps moving on. The libs are proprietary libs hacked from the current version _at_the_time_the_software_was_written (199?). They have to be the ones used, or the driver doesn't work.

So if i have Mesa-2.3.4 libs, and try to run them with Mesa-6.7.8, am I not asking for weirdness? I'm getting away with running my libs in a later version atm, but I don't want to push my luck too far.

madsovenielsen · 04-02-2010, 05:00 AM

I have installed Fedora 11 instead. What a performance increase!. i will add the extra RAM. i don't know if the hardware is poorly supported under Fedora 12 or if its just a resource hungry distro. i understand that "they" can't fill the distro with arcane drivers, but installing Fedora 11 did the trick.

/mads