The X server problem was that there was too much disk thrashing.
Somewhat lesser in Window Maker/ Fvwm2 but very much still there. I
usually
had to kill X and restart especially if I had Netscape running. My
machine specs are :-
AMD 450 Mhz, 64MB RAM, Riva TNT 128 Bit 16 MB, Xfree86 3.3.6 using SVGA
server on RH 6.1, Kernel 2.2.12-20, swap 128 MB.
No such problems with your recipe. Works fine so far although there is
still a "little bit" of excess disk activity. I wonder if this is
because of the SVGA server itself. Maybe a better / more recent "driver"
for the display card may improve the situation ?? I am not aware of any
new linux driver for the RIVA TNT though Nvidia was planning to release
a binary for linux some time back. Or maybe I should try the new xfree86
4.x ?
Any thoughts on this ?
---VK
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
> no probs - u can post your experience to the list maybe :)
>
> Krishnan Venkatachalam [Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 08:37:39PM +0530]:
>
> > Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> >
> > I was having a real problem with my X despite using even Fvwm2 and
> > Netscape 4.75.
> > I just tried the suggested combo ie Xfce + Netscape 7.5 . Its superb.
> > Thanks for the tip Suresh.
> >
> > ---VK
> >
> >
> > Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote :
> >
> > > I'm using communicator 4.75 (compiled from a tarball) with the xfce window
> > > manager (http://www.xfce.org - looks exactly like solaris cde)
> > >
> > > Extremely stable, far faster than the RPM build that came with rh 6.2 - 4.72 I
> > > think. And xfce rocks ;) Anyone in it.com, demo it folks ;)
>
> --
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