P2 233, 128mb

On 7/18/05, Andrew Baudouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  Joseph Fruchey wrote: 
>  Howabout AbiWord? I was trying to type something, and line-by-line
> scrolling took two or three seconds per line. Blech.
> 
> On 7/18/05, Andrew Baudouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>  
>  I have noticed in my personal experience that Firefox is a dog on
> anything less than 1Ghz. YMMV.
> 
> I recently installed ubuntu on a Cel533/192MB and the 'Fox was slow on a
> 2MB vid card.
> 
> Joseph Fruchey wrote:
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>  
>  Any ideas what else could be causing it? I took a little video of me
> scrolling on the BRLUG site (with my daugher making noise in the
> background) that I'll try to post later today just for the hell of it.
> 
> On 7/16/05, Will Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>  
>  No, that should be OK and it indicates something else is wrong. Even 1MB
> cards perform fast enough for XFCE and other nimble window managers.
> 
> On Saturday 16 July 2005 05:57 pm, Joseph Fruchey wrote:
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>  
>  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.
> 
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>  Dunno.  What are your system specs again?
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