Re: [SLUG] Tutorial Friday week
On 23/02/10 16:27, Heracles wrote: > I tried to run extreme tux racer and it was too slow to be usable. I am > running PCLinuxOS with Gnome. Have you tried testing whether you actually have 3D acceleartion or not? Your laptop is 900 MHz — the CPU part of it is fine. I put a good video card (GeForce 6200) in a 550 MHz machine, and it even runs wobbly windows smoothly. I'd hazard a guess that you're not actually utilising 3D acceleration, which is resulting in the unplayability of Tux Racer. Pyglet also uses OpenGL, so its performance will be impacted by that. What do these say? $ glxinfo | grep renderer $ glxinfo | grep rendering $ lspci | grep VGA signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Tutorial Friday week
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On 19 February 2010 11:36, Heracles wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hi All, >> First some info: >> I have an old Acer Travelmate 529ATX with 512Mb RAM(its max). It has a >> P111 (coppermine) about 900 MHz and a 120GB HDD. At the moment I am >> running PCLinuxOS and dual booting with XP. >> I have given Linux a 10GB file system drive and a 60GB home drive with a >> 1GB swap. >> >> Now question or two: >> 1. Is this notebook good enough for the tutorial? >> >> 2. If it is, can anyone recommend a distribution/desktop/setup that >> would be considerably faster than PCLinuxOS/Gnome? >> >> 3. If this notebook is too low in spec, what would you recommend as an >> inexpensive replacement for the tutorial? > > I believe the rule of thumb is that you should be fine if you can run > TuxRacer or some simple 3D game. > > I tried to run extreme tux racer and it was too slow to be usable. I am running PCLinuxOS with Gnome. Would there be a better/faster setup I could use on this machine Or would it just be easier to get something a little newer with a gig or two of RAM? Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuDZy0ACgkQybPcBAs9CE+9wwCeMLpdwk4QzkgsdhiZFkdEd0ky jFIAoMJTrhfybNJzITKoOH9XdWGW2lkH =vSAw -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Tutorial Friday week
On 19 February 2010 11:36, Heracles wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi All, > First some info: > I have an old Acer Travelmate 529ATX with 512Mb RAM(its max). It has a > P111 (coppermine) about 900 MHz and a 120GB HDD. At the moment I am > running PCLinuxOS and dual booting with XP. > I have given Linux a 10GB file system drive and a 60GB home drive with a > 1GB swap. > > Now question or two: > 1. Is this notebook good enough for the tutorial? > > 2. If it is, can anyone recommend a distribution/desktop/setup that > would be considerably faster than PCLinuxOS/Gnome? > > 3. If this notebook is too low in spec, what would you recommend as an > inexpensive replacement for the tutorial? I believe the rule of thumb is that you should be fine if you can run TuxRacer or some simple 3D game. -- Bring choice back to your computer. http://www.linux.org.au/linux -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Tutorial Friday week
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Heracles wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ken Foskey wrote: >> On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 11:36 +1100, Heracles wrote: >> >>> 1. Is this notebook good enough for the tutorial? >> >> How long is a piece of string. For Uni tutoring / lectures I favour >> weight versus performance. If we are talking about throwing graphics on >> a screen anything can do that. >> >> I have done full tutorials on a much worse system than that running >> adobe acrobat and it ran fine. I don't recommend acrobat, bet evince is >> faster so test it! >> >> If you are doing some intensive processing to highlight a feature or >> monitoring network traffic realtime on a heavy network then it will not >> hold up. >> >> Ta >> Ken > > Thanks Ken, > > But what I really meant was: "Is it good/fast/etc.. enough for the > specific tutorial on python programming being held at the SLUG meeting > this month?" > > Heracles > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkt96cQACgkQybPcBAs9CE98agCguEMQaibPOIOoZE/F1lpL2kdM > FtIAoLJvzzWMIwm7S6QtqJ5Gi8qwA64r > =881e > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > If you can run the test code on the wiki page then it should be fine. -- Harrison Conlin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Tutorial Friday week
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ken Foskey wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 11:36 +1100, Heracles wrote: > >> 1. Is this notebook good enough for the tutorial? > > How long is a piece of string. For Uni tutoring / lectures I favour > weight versus performance. If we are talking about throwing graphics on > a screen anything can do that. > > I have done full tutorials on a much worse system than that running > adobe acrobat and it ran fine. I don't recommend acrobat, bet evince is > faster so test it! > > If you are doing some intensive processing to highlight a feature or > monitoring network traffic realtime on a heavy network then it will not > hold up. > > Ta > Ken Thanks Ken, But what I really meant was: "Is it good/fast/etc.. enough for the specific tutorial on python programming being held at the SLUG meeting this month?" Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkt96cQACgkQybPcBAs9CE98agCguEMQaibPOIOoZE/F1lpL2kdM FtIAoLJvzzWMIwm7S6QtqJ5Gi8qwA64r =881e -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Tutorial Friday week
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 11:36 +1100, Heracles wrote: > 1. Is this notebook good enough for the tutorial? How long is a piece of string. For Uni tutoring / lectures I favour weight versus performance. If we are talking about throwing graphics on a screen anything can do that. I have done full tutorials on a much worse system than that running adobe acrobat and it ran fine. I don't recommend acrobat, bet evince is faster so test it! If you are doing some intensive processing to highlight a feature or monitoring network traffic realtime on a heavy network then it will not hold up. Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Tutorial Friday week
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, First some info: I have an old Acer Travelmate 529ATX with 512Mb RAM(its max). It has a P111 (coppermine) about 900 MHz and a 120GB HDD. At the moment I am running PCLinuxOS and dual booting with XP. I have given Linux a 10GB file system drive and a 60GB home drive with a 1GB swap. Now question or two: 1. Is this notebook good enough for the tutorial? 2. If it is, can anyone recommend a distribution/desktop/setup that would be considerably faster than PCLinuxOS/Gnome? 3. If this notebook is too low in spec, what would you recommend as an inexpensive replacement for the tutorial? TIA Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkt93QIACgkQybPcBAs9CE9tMgCguhLjgC3bBicwnGqoCIutPNfn t74An1vml85paDlN5hOsSyOiNuOPr8kK =VeDz -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
