On Sunday 07 September 2003 08:07 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: <big snips of my mistakes and corrections for them>
> > 32mb is plenty. Set the aperature to 32 also. You'll never need > more than that. Most of the time you're only usin about 4mb of > video ram, even at the resolutions you mentioned <I snipped>. A lot > of onboard video ram is mostly a marketing gimmick. > set what aperature? i might be getting more experimental with video here as i go on. since i've got the DVD drive now, i was talking to a friend about a DVD Decoder card, as it will take the processing strain off the processor and give me more head room there. using mplayer for DVD playback, my processor jumps from 60% useage all the way to 90% at times during playback. never below 60% during DVD playing, and i'm running an AMD 950MHz Slot A processor. if i start composing an e-mail or doing extensive surfing at the same time, i'll hit 100% processor use and the video playback will start to get choppy, but the sound chugs along just fine most of the time. so getting something in there to take some strain off the processor would be nice, and might even make the graphics better during DVD playback. > > I dunno, I've never had that happen, and I have changed video > cards before. I wouldn't worry about it tho. Probly an artifact > left from an upgrade, rather than a fresh install. > ok, won't worry about it. > Sounds like all you've got left to do is get rid of the 'old' > stanzas in lilo.conf. Actually you could'a removed them during the > upgrade usin the installer's tool. Now just edit lilo.conf, delete > them an re-run lilo. I believe you can also do this with a GUI in > MCC. > ok, will do. thanks a lot Tom, the help is greatly appreciated. i know i can get to it through the MCC GUI, as i removed 'windows 2' from lilo that way. 'windows 2' was my 2nd hard drive, which has no operating system on it, so it was not needed in any way shape or form in the lilo. once again, thanks for your help. hopefully i can get it all right this time and can soon just post a quick 'update' that all issues are resolved and i'm back on track. :) Mike
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