Tried Xubuntu and Ubuntu, both ran pretty slow.

Here's what lshw gives me:


description: Computer
width: 32 bits
*-core
description: Motherboard
physical id: 0
*-memory
description: System memory
physical id: 0
size: 447MiB
*-cpu
product: AMD Sempron(tm) 3000+
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
physical id: 1
bus info: cpu@0
version: 6.10.0
size: 2GHz
width: 32 bits
capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mp mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up
*-cache:0
description: L1 cache
physical id: 0
size: 128KiB
*-cache:1
description: L2 cache
physical id: 1
size: 512KiB
*-pci
description: Host bridge
product: VT8378 [KM400/A] Chipset Host Bridge
vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
physical id: 100
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
configuration: driver=agpgart-via latency=8
resources: irq:0 memory:e0000000-e3ffffff(prefetchable)
*-pci
description: PCI bridge
product: VT8237/VX700 PCI Bridge
vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pci bus_master cap_list
resources: memory:e8000000-e9ffffff memory:e4000000-e7ffffff(prefetchable)
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: KM400/KN400/P4M800 [S3 UniChrome]
vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=32 mingnt=2
resources: memory:e4000000-e7ffffff(prefetchable) memory:e8000000-e8ffffff memory:e9000000-e900ffff(prefetchable)
*-communication:0 UNCLAIMED
description: Communication controller
product: V.92 56K WinModem
vendor: Agere Systems
physical id: a
bus info: pci@0000:00:0a.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=32 maxlatency=14 mingnt=252
resources: memory:ea000000-ea0000ff ioport:a000(size=8) ioport:a400

welcome to lq Timewall

um, can you post the output of

lspci

and

cat /proc/cpuinfo

Performance is more a matter of your system's configuration than the distro you run. There are hundreds of ways you can tweak system speed. It would help to know what's slowing you down. Otherwize, I wouldn't know where to even start.

Sorry, Lou

What seems to be slowing me down is Xorg, which often runs at 100% CPU when I'm browsing the web - the computer seems to hang. Thanks for any help you guys can give - I'm very much a Linux newbie.

Here's my output:


00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [KM400/A] Chipset Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237/VX700 PCI Bridge
00:0a.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems V.92 56K WinModem (rev 03)
00:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306 Fire II IEEE 1394 OHCI Link Layer Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 80)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. KM400/KN400/P4M800 [S3 UniChrome] (rev 01)


And:




processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 10
model name : AMD Sempron(tm) 3000+
stepping : 0
cpu MHz : 1999.424
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mp mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up
bogomips : 3998.84
clflush size : 32

how much ram does it have?

I think almost any distro would work good...

My 2 pc's are both amd's
amd athlonXP 2400+ and athlon64 3300+
2400 has nvidia mx4000 and 3300 has crappy sis graphics

I would go for either slack or arch with a lite desktop
like icewm, fluxbox, jwm, etc

If you wanna install slack or arch and any lite desktop and dont know how
I'll help you

I'm not exactly sure how much RAM I have:


total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 434 417 16 0 6 130
-/+ buffers/cache: 280 153
Swap: 525 151 374

I mean, how would I have 434 megs of RAM? That's an odd number.

Anyway, I am interested in a lite distro and instructions about how to install it. I don't really know much about slack, though I am interested in learning more. Really, I would like a lite one that could still run a good variety of programs. I've got the space for a full-featured distro, but my comp just can't seem to push the graphical elements.

Look at the graphics card on board or otherwise

Fred

Can anyone tell me a bit more about slack and/or installing a lite desktop? My knowledge of Linux is limited to kind of pre-packaged distros like Ubuntu.

I made a couple you can try and can point you to other livecd/usbs based on slackware

theres my slack based distros with lite desktops
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Syste...SB-55041.shtml

http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Syste...86-54962.shtml

and zenwalk live, vector light live, SalixOS, Linvo, fluxflux, slax, absolute
slack-mini-server, ultima, and alot others

lite desktops you wanna check out are blackbox, fluxbox, icewm, scrotwm, jwm, openbox, fvwm,
and afterstep, e17, etc

I have a Template for making a Slackware'ish DVD featuring

vector light live
zenwalk live
linvo live
ultima live
moolux
slax

and you can put it all on a 4GB or bigger USB

if you want it tell me and I'll tell you how to connstruct it