Hi Roman,
Increasing video RAM takes more of the load off your processor and speeds
up video quite nicely.
--
Mark
Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle...
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Surprisingly on Sun, 5 Nov 2000 Romanator had this to say!
> Can increasing your video RAM help?
>
> Roman
> Registered Linux User #179293
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver
> Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 9:48 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.2 is painfully slow
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> Most definately..you need more RAM. At least 64 to run things confortably.
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> --
> Mark
>
> Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle...
> WITH WARTS!
>
> registered linux user # 182496
> =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\=
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> Surprisingly on Sat, 4 Nov 2000 Larry Marshall had this to say!
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> > > I have just changed over from Corel to Mandrake 7.2. I have had a couple
> prob
> > lems with it. Has anyone else felt that it is very slow,
> >
> > You've got some sort of problem with the installation as linuxconfig
> > should take only a few seconds to load. It takes only 2 seconds for the
> > control center to load on my 500mhz machine.
> >
> > >Its possible it could my computer not having enough power also but I dont
> > know. Its a Pentium 500 with 32 megs ram
> >
> > 32megs isn't very much to run these modern versions of
> > X+window_manager.
> >
> > >there anyway of Netscape look nice and colorful. Every linux Distro I
> > used has a nice looking Netscape that has colors. Mandrake has this boring
> grey
> >
> > Again, there's a problem with your setup as it's nice and colorful here.
> >
> > Cheers --- Larry
> >
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