I'm using KDE. I forgot to mention that I'm using a Voodoo3500 video card.
I'll check the BIOS stuff tonight...
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 1:22 PM
To: LinuxNewbie (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [newbie] Major window manager slowness and quirky netscape
issues
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Mark Johnson wrote:
>I'm running Mandrake on a pentium II 400MHz/128MB at the resolution one up
>from 1024x768 and with a medium size centered wallpaper. It's just not
very
>perky - it's not "impossible" slow but it's "annoyingly" slow. Also,
>Netscape takes forever to load web pages and it keeps reloading pages when
>you hit the back key. I tried looking for a cache property but couldn't
>find it. Mozilla is impossible slow - it's unusable for me. Also, Netscape
>will just disappear on me while I browsing does anyone else have these
>problems. Is there a way to speed up the window manager?
This is very strange. I am running the exact same specs as you are, and
with me things really fly. I use XFCE as window manager, what do you
use? Is your harddisk fast enough? Have you looked at the proper settings
for memory speed and cache in the BIOS?
Paul
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