Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-25 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:50:37 -0400 Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 07:45:47PM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:56:45 -0400 Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would suggest trying links2. It is light weight but does javascript,

Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-24 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:56:45 -0400 Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I would suggest trying links2. It is light weight but does javascript, SSL, etc and will help you decide if the problem is the browser or the video rendering. I don't see javascript support in my links2, and

Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 07:45:47PM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:56:45 -0400 Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would suggest trying links2. It is light weight but does javascript, SSL, etc and will help you decide if the problem is the browser or the video

Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 02:04:37PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: The system is Lenny on an i386 with a 1700 MHz Celeron and 1 Gb RAM, ASUS P4PE motherboard. The slow performance (nearly full processor utilization) occurs not only with iceweasel but also with galeon (2.0.4), on a variety of

Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-14 Thread KS
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 02:04:37PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: The system is Lenny on an i386 with a 1700 MHz Celeron and 1 Gb RAM, ASUS P4PE motherboard. The slow performance (nearly full processor utilization) occurs not only with iceweasel but also with galeon

Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-14 Thread KS
KS wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 02:04:37PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: The system is Lenny on an i386 with a 1700 MHz Celeron and 1 Gb RAM, ASUS P4PE motherboard. The slow performance (nearly full processor utilization) occurs not only with iceweasel but also

Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-14 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080314 11:14]: It sounds like a problem with GTK (which both iceweasel and galeon use) or a problem with the gecko engine (which both iceweasel and gelon use). I'd suggest installing Konqueror. You don't need to install the whole KDE DTE, it will run

Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-13 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080312 23:56]: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:31:29PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: Iceweasel pushes processor utilization to 100 percent; I would like to find a browser which is more economical. Any process can push any processor to 100% momentarily.

Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 06:17:50AM +0100, Holger Dörner wrote: Having discovered the gnome system monitor, I seldom run top anymore. But I have a gigabyte of RAM, about half of which is user and about half of which is cache. Iceweasel pushes processor utilization to 100 percent; I would

Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 02:46:32AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: * Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080312 23:56]: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:31:29PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: Iceweasel pushes processor utilization to 100 percent; I would like to find a browser which is more

Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-13 Thread KS
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 02:46:32AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: * Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080312 23:56]: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:31:29PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: Iceweasel pushes processor utilization to 100 percent; I would like to find a

Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-13 Thread Russell L. Harris
* KS [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080313 12:35]: There is not need to create a new user just for testing Iceweasel for config problems. Start Iceweasel from a terminal with the option -ProfileManager. It starts Iceweasel's profile manager where you can create/delete profiles. Create a new one and do the

Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-13 Thread KS
Russell L. Harris wrote: I typically have open half a dozen browser windows. Yesterday I was running galeon, rather than iceweasel. While editing a file with XEmacs, I noticed the cursor moving with jumps, rather than smoothly. Then I saw that galeon was hogging the processor. I began

Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 02:04:37PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: ... Should I follow the procedure which generally is recommended for a Window$ installation which displays the same symptom -- reinstall the entire system? no. okay, well, you certainly can if you want, but it is almost

Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-12 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Valkai Elod [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080312 02:28]: There were reports of problems with 4GB of RAM, or some kind of DMA, I think. There are some board makers that do not want to release new firmware to correct them. Gigabyte seems ok, Asus might be too, but check for bios updates. I've got a

Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 02:35:05AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: * Valkai Elod [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080312 02:28]: Thank you for the reply. My desire is for a general-purpose desktop machine which is faster than an old 1700 MHz Celeron. I do not play games or watch videos. I use 1280x1024

Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-12 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080312 15:35]: If you don't play games or watch videos, then what is slowing down a 1700 MHz Celeron (or any other 1700 MHz CPU) so that you want faster? The most important thing is to have enough memory. With that Celeron box, doing whatever you do

Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:31:29PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: * Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080312 15:35]: If you don't play games or watch videos, then what is slowing down a 1700 MHz Celeron (or any other 1700 MHz CPU) so that you want faster? The most important thing is

Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-12 Thread Holger Dörner
Having discovered the gnome system monitor, I seldom run top anymore. But I have a gigabyte of RAM, about half of which is user and about half of which is cache. Iceweasel pushes processor utilization to 100 percent; I would like to find a browser which is more economical. I found a

amd 690g chipset

2008-03-11 Thread Russell L. Harris
I am considering an Asus M2A-VM motherboard with an AMD 690G chipset. With Google and Yahoo I found some threads complaining about lack of support, but some of the threads were old and some were not dated. Is the AMD 690G chipset currently well supported in Debian? RLH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE