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BigCletus
10-31-2003, 11:46 PM
I am running RH9 w/ XD2 and my system is SLOW....it is a PIII 500 512MB ram.
I love XD2 but hate how slow it is. I realize that it is definately not a light-weight wm like Flux or something like that but there has to be some way to optimize it for my system.... I would think. Or am I just wasting my time?
I just d/l Gentoo linux and thought I would play with a distro that would be fast, but I don't have a week to kill on settting it up.
Any ideas for XD2? Would a kernel compile help any? Thanks!
bosox79
10-31-2003, 11:58 PM
Originally posted by BigCletus
I am running RH9 w/ XD2 and my system is SLOW....it is a PIII 500 512MB ram.
I love XD2 but hate how slow it is. I realize that it is definately not a light-weight wm like Flux or something like that but there has to be some way to optimize it for my system.... I would think. Or am I just wasting my time?
I just d/l Gentoo linux and thought I would play with a distro that would be fast, but I don't have a week to kill on settting it up.
Any ideas for XD2? Would a kernel compile help any? Thanks!
have you tried killing services you don't use? according to the top command what is eating up your system resources? is XD2 the only program that runs slow? have you tried another DE or wm to see if it displays the same type of behavior?
I know what you mean. I have yet to find a solution myself. Many people like to suggest killing unnecessary services, hdparm, Gentoo, using lighweight WM, and while those things do help a little, I think the real problem is a lack of hardware acceleration somewhere; I just don't know exactly where.
bosox79
11-01-2003, 01:15 AM
Originally posted by kam
I know what you mean. I have yet to find a solution myself. Many people like to suggest killing unnecessary services, hdparm, Gentoo, using lighweight WM, and while those things do help a little, I think the real problem is a lack of hardware acceleration somewhere; I just don't know exactly where.
What video card do you have? did you enable 3D acceleration in xffree86 if you have an nvidia card you could install there drivers rather then the standered NV ones:D
BigCletus
11-01-2003, 07:40 PM
I have the Nvidia GeForce 3 ti 64MB DDRam. I also use the drivers off of Nvidia's site.
bosox79
11-01-2003, 07:56 PM
Originally posted by BigCletus
I have the Nvidia GeForce 3 ti 64MB DDRam. I also use the drivers off of Nvidia's site.
ok, is 3D acceleration (DRI) enabled in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file? can you post it?
BigCletus
11-01-2003, 08:41 PM
DRI is disabled in my XF86config file. It was once enabled with the old 'nv' driver that comes stock with RH9 but with the 'nvidia' driver from their site, they say to disable DRI and GLcore and enable GLX.
Not really sure what any of this means, its just what they say in their Doc for setting up the nvidia drivers. So I am not sure that I can use DRI.
bosox79
11-01-2003, 09:19 PM
Originally posted by BigCletus
DRI is disabled in my XF86config file. It was once enabled with the old 'nv' driver that comes stock with RH9 but with the 'nvidia' driver from their site, they say to disable DRI and GLcore and enable GLX.
Not really sure what any of this means, its just what they say in their Doc for setting up the nvidia drivers. So I am not sure that I can use DRI.
is GLX enabled? I have to step out right now but i'll check back later
bosox