Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2358 mails)

[Drow@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Aduanne Carter)]

On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> I have installed (Clean setup) on 486 / 16MB / 1.2GB HDD / Trident 512KB
> video.
> Set up X windows.
> Configuration menu's in Xwin are too big and cannot see the bottom buttons.
> System very slow.
> Installed Star Office and impossible to use as software is so slow.

To small a box.  Not enough resources to run X let alone Star Office in X. 
This box would be a nice printer server, firewall, router......  That other OS
would choke on this as well.  If you insist on using X then try using
Windowmaker....  Smaller memory print and the menus scroll when off the screen.
 Wont help with StarOffice though.....  just not enough resources....

> 
> Set up on my home computer.
> P233 / 96MB/ 4.3GB HDD / S3 - S375 video.
> Install was much quicker but runs slow.
> Installed Star Office and is still impossible to use as software is so slow.

You could improve you hardisk access by turning on dma to you controller.  It
is a new enough machine so you should have at least DMA if not UDMA.  The
command is 'hdparm -d1 /dev/hda'.  Replace /dev/hda with what ever your
harddisk device is.  You can put that line in your /etc/rc.d/boot or boot.local
file to have it happen every time you boot up.  If that is not enough maybe try
a different windowmanager or disable some of the backround service running.  I
run a P200MMX with 64M at work and it is fine for me.....  

Well happy hunting and good luck!  And Welcome!


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