What video card do you have? Obviously having accelerated drivers (not just 3D) will play a big part (i.e. not using framebuffer). Also, if you're using MPlayer, changing the video output driver can make a big difference.
Oh, and linuxpackages.net is your friend. :-) One caveat I must mention, though, is there is a distinct lack of MD5 sums. The packages are all user-contributed, so there's nothing guarenteed (including security) about them. However, they're a nice-to-have if you're lazy like me. :-) OTOH, you can compile just about anything without breaking your Slackware system. Have fun! Curtis On Sat March 27 2004 15:36, Jesse Kline wrote: > On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 09:42, Curtis Sloan wrote: > > Jesse, > > > > You have a (non-RPM based) Slackware box?! You've been holding out on > > us! ;-) > > > > Next we're going to find out you've been secretly compiling Gentoo. ;-) > > LOL > > > > Curtis > > lol, yes I installed Slackware on my laptop. I've actually found it to > be pretty sweet. Despite what everyone says about the install, I found > it fairly straightforward. Package installation has been painless as > well. I installed swaret which works like apt (although it doesn't have > nearly as many sources as apt does for most systems). Since all the > development packages come pre-installed it is easy to compile software. > I also installed Dropline Gnome which has it's own installer and is very > easy to install and update. It's actually very slick and it's up to date > unlike Ximian Gnome. The only issue that I have, is that I cannot get > good video performance out of it. When I try to watch videos in > fullscreen they are all choppy and it makes them unviewable. I'm not > sure why this is, the laptop is a P3 500 with 768MB RAM so I would think > that it should be able to play video no problem. > > Jesse > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
