Well, it's still strange -- my ThinkPad is a 300MHz Celeron with 64 MB
RAM, and it runs both KDE 2 and Gnome just fine. Your system should be
able to do as well, from a hardware standpoint. Is it possible that even
though the correct X driver is installed, the video settings (refresh
rate, etc.) are still not quite correct?
Just a thought.
Dave
On Thursday 17 May 2001 13:38, thus spake Irv Mullins:
> On Thu, 17 May 2001, Dave wrote:
> > I ran into a similar problem with Mandrake 7.2. The problem/solution
> > turned out to be that Mandrake had detected and chosen a generic X
> > video driver for my video card, but that generic driver worked very
> > poorly with my card. Once I changed to the proper video driver (using
> > HardDrake), the whole system sped up considerably.
>
> Yes, I also had this suggestion from someone on the ale list -
> unfortunately, Mandrake 8.0 had already detected the correct video card
> and driver for mine. Also, using WindowMaker or IceWm, things seemed to
> run fast enough, which (maybe) rules out a hardware problem.
>
> At any rate, I'm happy with KDE 1.x for now.
>
> Regards,
> Irv
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