At 20:05 05/02/2002 -0400, Michael Fischer wrote:
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On the good side, I get rather a kick out of the frambuffer on tty1. Feels strange typing 'startx' while I'm already looking at a pretty picture. :-)
What's this mean?
Also, I'd swear the machine feels noticeably snappier. I'm not sure if this is X4.2 (?), the SuSE (aa patches applied) kernel, both, neither. But its certainly nice.
I wish mine felt snappier. I went from SuSE 7.1 to a new install of 8.0 Pro, standard options except I chose the file system e3fs (is that the right name?) because I wanted access to the Linux system from MSWin, via Explore2fs. I'm running on an old Pentium 166 with 64 meg ram. I did not apply any patches; are they needed, and what do they do? To me, the system is uselessly slow. I will try this on a computer with a 700 MHz Athlon and 128 meg ram, and see what happens. Comments, anyone? BTW: I had a lot of trouble because this system will not boot from CD, and the basic install did not recognize the 3rd floppy. I'm not really sure how I finally got it to go, but it wasn't intuitive, I'll say that. One more question: I can modify the background of the screens at F2, F3, and F4, but I cannot get rid of the ugly green disaster under F1 no matter how I try. Anyone with a clue? Still in MSWin, because of the speed problem. /snip/ --doug