hehe. There should be a neomagic X driver to use without doing the FB routine. And no, FB runs suckier on *everything*... I'm just used to doing xf86config or xorgconfig on those older machines.
On 7/22/05, Joseph Fruchey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dell's site lists a NeoMagic NM2160, POST says MagicGraph 128XD 48K > SVGA. Ugh, I hate SVGA. > > And IceWM won't shut down properly, so I'm back to XFCE for now. > > On 7/22/05, Joseph Fruchey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The DSL F2 boot options screen said that fb ran better on laptops. > > It's also the only way I've gotten a readable display. I'll check the > > vidcard in a minute, but it's some off-the-wall Made in China thing > > I've never heard of. > > > > Yeah, I actually tried surfing with Dillo for a few minutes, but it > > reminded me too much of 1995. And I know GNOME is too bloated. I tried > > installing fluxbox, but it won't load. I'm kinda bouncing back and > > forth between icewm and xfce. Icewm currently. > > > > On 7/22/05, Andrew Baudouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why are you running in framebuffer mode? What is the exact make/model > > > of vidcard you are running? > > > > > > Dillo is much smaller of a browser than Firefox. It doesn't support > > > any kind of plugins, just vanilla HTML 4. It supports no Javascript > > > as well. Ubuntu's Gnome 2.10 is way overbloated for your hardware. > > > > > > Try removing and readding the module after resume for your wifi. > > > > > > BTW, you are running into many of the issues that make people go back > > > to Windows. I had to give up LInux on my laptop due to suspend/resume > > > issues and WUSB54G lack of support. I also could not figure how to > > > get my airo card go into promiscuous mode. > > > > > > > > > > > > On 7/22/05, Joseph Fruchey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Okay, I'm still annoyed by this Latitude P2-233. It's still very slow, > > > > but I'm now thinking it's a driver problem. If I boot with DSL, > > > > accepting the defaults (xvesa), the graphics are screwed up, but > > > > scrolling in Dillo (which comes up on boot) is zippy. If I run in > > > > framebuffer mode, everything looks fine, but I'm back to the same > > > > choppy scrolling as with Ubuntu. Any thoughts? > > > > > > > > Also, how can I get my WUSB11 wireless adapter to work after coming > > > > back from suspend? I always just reboot, but there's got to be some > > > > type of "refresh" command, right? > > > > > > > > Joey > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > General mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > General mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
