On Wednesday 18 September 2002 04:25 pm, you wrote: > I patched the vanilla 2.4.18 source that came > with Slackware 8.1 to 2.4.19 and then applied > Con Kolivas' patchset > (http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ck7_2.4.19.patch.bz2). > The result was pretty amazing. The KDE windows > now move around like greased lightning!
I'm also curious if KDE will also move like this on an AMD-K6-500 128 MB RAM with 8MB SIS530 graphics card, given the same kernel and patchset? Did Con Kolivas try his kernel-patchset combo on a low-end machine? I'm curious if KDE can finally be operable in low-end machines such as Pentium I's and II's. I have several friends who use Gnome on these low-end machines because Gnome is much faster. Personally, I prefer KDE because of its more consistent user-interface and behavior. The only problem is that KDE's slow on these machines. > Time to do some low-level Linux gfx/audio programming > and see how the the preemptable, low-latency, O(1) > scheduled kernel stacks up to WinXP and BeOS. My friends and I noted that the game sounds considerably lagged while playing Unreal Tournament 2003 on Linux with Athlon motherboards and Nvidia chipsets (rocket-firing sounds are heard a moment after they're seen firing onscreen :-( ). Any tip(s) on what seems to be the problem? By the way, Unreal Tournament 2003 on Linux looks gorgeous, much like "Halo" on Xbox. :-) Can the preemptable, low-latency, O(1) scheduled kernel reduce MIDI latency timing problems? > The Linux framebuffer abstraction is great! It gives > game programmers a standard, solid gfx API besides > svgalib and X (pleh...). Hope this technology is a major step in creating a DirectX-like graphic technology for Linux machines. Will it? What advantage(s) will it give to SDL? Thanks in advance. mikol _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
