> packages except games at the package selection prompt. At the video > settings I choose the normal 16 color with 600 * 800 without 3D > acceleration. If you have the resources (i.e., a modern video card with sufficient (>2 meg) video memory, you really should pick a higher resolution. X (and therefore kde) doesn't run well and looks particularly ugly with only 16 colors to choose from. KDE is fairly color-intense, which means that there simply won't be enough colors for all the stuff. (X allocates colors differently than what you might be used to - if say one app takes a particular shade of blue, that color is no longer available to any other app that you may want to run at the same time. > tell how much memory I have. It usually takes about 30mb for buffer and > leaves about 2 ~ 3 mb free. Free memory is wasted memory, and you'll find that if you open other apps, then some of the free memory (and some buffers) will be taken over by the other app. That there is ca. 30 megs in buffers when you boot into KDE is likely because the kernel's noticed all the disk activity inherent in loading up KDE up to the point where you can go to a konsole and type 'free'. > Would it take less memory if I try to disable some of the startup > services? Yes. KDE does take a lot of memory resources. You need at least 64megs to run it well, and 128 megs is desireable. > Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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