Eben King wrote:
>Something with the video, then. Was it always this way under XFree86, or
>did it get this way? Do you know of anyone with this model of laptop for
>whom video works fine under XFree86? What driver are you using for
>XFree86? (/etc/X11/XF86Config(-4), section "Device"m driver=?)
>
I have run KDE2 on this laptop with Gentoo, and I don't recall having
any problems. It does run fluxbox and other spartan windows managers
quite well.
> 192MB system memory, and I think 4MB on the trident video card
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>4MB should be enough for 1024x768@32bit with a meg left over for driver
>slop and caches... You're not trying to run some huge setup, are you?
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Actually, I think I have 2.5 MB of memory. Just running a default
Slackware 9.1, at 1024x768, 16 bit color depth
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>>top's summary:
>> 00:44:40 up 7:31, 3 users, load average: 0.44, 0.55, 0.40
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> ^^^^
>That's a high load for sitting around doing nothing, and the other numbers
>(they're something like an exponentially-decayed number of entries in
>the run queue with 1, 5, 15 minute time constants) say it's been going
>like that for a while. Something is using up a significant chunk of CPU.
>But nothing shows up near the top of the list in "top"?
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>
Here is more of top's output:
23:27:57 up 44 min, 3 users, load average: 0.10, 0.06, 0.08
60 processes: 59 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 0.9% user 0.9% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 98.0% idle
Mem: 191268k av, 182592k used, 8676k free, 0k shrd, 22388k
buff
69876k active, 97524k inactive
Swap: 192772k av, 0k used, 192772k free 91084k
cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
1147 root 14 0 1024 1024 816 R 1.5 0.5 0:00 0 top
1131 root 11 0 14660 14M 13248 S 0.3 7.6 0:02 0 kdeinit
1 root 8 0 240 240 208 S 0.0 0.1 0:04 0 init
2 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 keventd
3 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 0
ksoftirqd_CPU0
Maybe I just need a faster laptop? I have run Win2K on this laptop, it
perfomred nicely, so I'm pretty sure X windows and KDE should be OK....
Doug
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