Re: speed on old machines

1999-09-27 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Shankar" == Shankar Gopalakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shankar> Hi all, Thanks for all the mail on how to get Lyx running Shankar> well on a 486SX Model 56. As many of you suggested I got rid Shankar> of KDE and ran LyX off FVWM; at first that didn't make any Shankar> difference, b

Re: speed on old machines

1999-09-26 Thread Shankar Gopalakrishnan
Hi all, Thanks for all the mail on how to get Lyx running well on a 486SX Model 56. As many of you suggested I got rid of KDE and ran LyX off FVWM; at first that didn't make any difference, but after I eliminated lpd, sendmail and a few other daemons the system sped up a bit. I still can

Re: Speed on old machines

1999-09-22 Thread Shankar Gopalakrishnan
> Kde is a hog for resources. > > I've actually _seen_ with my own two eyes. > Lyx running very ( acceptably anyway ) well on a 486-sx-80 --- or was it 75. > > We made sure that the kernel was compiled for a 486, did not have anything in it > which was not actually needed to be able to use the m

Re: Speed on old machines

1999-09-21 Thread Davor Cengija
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Shankar Gopalakrishnan wrote: >Hey, > I'm running Lyx 1.0.0 on an old IBM PS/2 Model 56, with Slackware >kernel 2.0.35 modified for MCA, X, and KDE running. The machine has 16 >MB of RAM and 50 megs of swap space, a 486SX processor, and an XGA-2 >card with a 9524 monit

Speed on old machines

1999-09-21 Thread Shankar Gopalakrishnan
Hey, I'm running Lyx 1.0.0 on an old IBM PS/2 Model 56, with Slackware kernel 2.0.35 modified for MCA, X, and KDE running. The machine has 16 MB of RAM and 50 megs of swap space, a 486SX processor, and an XGA-2 card with a 9524 monitor. My problem is essentially that Lyx runs a little to