On Feb 21, 3:03pm, rude bwot wrote:
> Subject: win98 faster than freeX86???
> hi linx gods
>
> relatively new 2 the linux world and loving it - but there's a rumble in
>
> paradise - a rumbling hard drive that iz.
>
> i am using :
> redhat 5.1
> kernel 2.0.34
> Xfree86 3.3.2 (mach 64 server)
>
> on a:
> AMD 350
> 128MB SDRAM (100MHZ bus)
> ATI rage II video card (AGP, 8meg)
>
> as expected - machine iz fast - i've got win98/linux dual boot.
> win98 iz on the master drive of the primary controller.
> linux iz on the slave drive of the primary controller.
> 128MB swap partition iz on the master drive.
> (cdrom iz on secondary controller)
>
> Now - all iz good EXCEPT when i run netscape (4.05) on linux
> and have more than 2 or 3 netscape windows open (i really havent
> played around with much other X apps) .
>
> The windows take a year and a day 2 repaint, the response of th???
At a command prompt do a "free" command to see how much memory Linux is
reporting. On many machines non-windows OS(s) and sometimes even NT cannot
"correctly" detect the full amount of memory in a machine. You should see
about 2M less than you physically have. Many Compaqs only report 16M and some
other machines never more than 64M
> oh - don't think this matters - but i am running XFCE as my window
> manager (perfomance seems 2 b better than FVWM - i hate FVWM
> anyways)
> also my resolution iz 1280x1024 - 16million colours (24bpp) - as
> comparative analysis - win98 iz using the same resolution 2.
No, doesn't matter, but XFCE rules!
