Oh well, the mp3 skips when netscape is renderring a new page. But I guess
it happens no matter how fast your processor is: netscape just eat all the
resources it could possiblly find. My point is that I can run both on the
low end machine without crashing anything.
Michael
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Paul Sack wrote:
> And you weren't downsampling the mp3's? That's incredible. my p200 w/
> 64mb ram rh 5.2 couldn't do x11amp & netscape well. (i have since
> switched to mpg123 which is far more efficient.) Although this could
> have something to do with the video card holding the system while it
> repaints the netscape window every time i load a new page. Could be my
> cheap laptop video card...
>
> Michael Yuan wrote:
> >
> > I do not know about your other questions. But I used to run RH6 with
> > netscape and X11amp on a P-75 with 24MB RAM. There was no problem. So,
> > your processor power is definately enough
> >
> > regards,
> > michael
> >
> > On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Gary Tsai wrote:
> >
> > > i'm currently running rh6 under my "temporary" p5-100 in hopes that the k6-3
> > > 400 or higher will fall under $100 very quickly. i'm having some problems
> > > getting netscape and x11 amp to work though, and i'm wondering if it's
> > > because my processor is too slow. it freezes up when i try to run either
> > > app. i used to use rh6 under a k6-233 and everything worked fine, but i had
> > > to give up that machine.
> > >
> > > also, what kernel version started letting you leave out the statement in
> > > LILO which specified your memory if you had more than 64M? was it 2.2.x?
> > > also, i just got an asus p5a board with the ALi Aladdin V chipset, and i
> > > hear it only caches 128M of RAM. i have a 64M DIMM in there, and i was just
> > > wondering if it wouldn't even be worth it to get anything more than another
> > > 64M DIMM.
> > >
> > >
> > > one last question. is there a place where you can get a list to read about
> > > what all of those packages in the RH install actually do? i'd like to know
> > > more about what i'm installing.
> > >
> > > thanks,
>
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
