The worst thing on this machine is the 2MB VRAM, which I'm assuming is what's causing the slow refreshes on scrolling in Firefox or whatever else.
On 7/16/05, Will Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Glad it worked for you. KDM in Sarge had a configuration change that knocked > out a few options from the session menu. I found the problem and solution by > Google searching for kdm and enlightenment. > > XFCE-4 runs well on a 133 P1 with 24 MB of RAM, like the thinkpad 560 I put it > on a month ago. I used dselect, which gave me clear recommendations and just > worked. There was no need to go outside of the debian repositories. > > Your computer will run XFCE-4 and much more. Try Enlightenment, Window Maker > or Afterstep. My laptop and computer I use most is a PII 233 with 196MB of > RAM. Most of the screen shots here were made from it: > > http://lists.clickers.org/~linuxsig/screenshots/desktop/index.html > > Enlightenment is my current favorite but the others will work. KDE is nice > but you will have problems running larger applications, like OO, unless you > load up with lots of memory. More memory is not always an option with an > older machine. > > On Saturday 16 July 2005 08:26 am, Joseph Fruchey wrote: > > Thanks. I was planning on doing that anyway, but you guys are a lot > > less "why didn't you search? The answer's *right here!*" ...but I did > > search and couldn't find an answer. > > > > The guy on the forums basically just pointed me to the Debian > > instructions on os-works.com, which pretty much had me add > > os-works.com to my sources.list, uninstall what I had so far, then > > reinstall. Worked like a charm. I had no idea a 233MHz processor could > > run this well! :) > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
