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! -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/