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| X on an old notebook? |
by andrej |
2002-08-28 01:21:12 |
I have an old P75 Tohsiba notebook (24M RAM, 4G HDD)that has been running Win95 quite decently; but I thought it might be interesting to see how it compared against Linux, particularly with X (for an interface with comparable ease-of-use).
So I gamely reformatted the hard-drive, wrote Debian's six disk images onto floppies, plugged in my PCMCIA network card, and off I went. The installation, though it took many times longer than W95 (mostly due to download times, I guess), went without a hitch, detecting all my hardware just fine.
So when that was all done, I started X and got a bit of a shock -- it was crawling so slowly, I really could almost see the pixels dropping onto the screen :). It was using the right video driver, too. I guess the cause of it is the smallish 24 megs of memory the machine has. And yet I have heard of people running X successfully on old machines.
So what I want to know is: is there some huge thing I'm missing here? Are there arcane tweak settings that will maximise performance? Any sites that give instructions (suitable for reasonably intelligent newbies) on configuring X for best performance on very-low-end machines? Or is it an impossibility? |
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1. use a small window Manager | by c3po | 2002-08-28 01:49:19 |
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I ran X on a very simular notebook, | by pecosdave | 2002-08-28 04:35:25 |
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Thanks | by andrej | 2002-08-28 04:45:54 |
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