Installing Severn on a Sony 505VE laptop - broken?

[Alan]

The problem was actually caused by the X server trying to use dri on a
chipset that really did not support it.  It was causing abnormal cpu
load.  Turning off dri and acpi made things run *much* better.

On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 21:47, Jef Spaleta wrote:
> Alan wrote:
> 
> > XFree86 is *SLOW*.  The system is a P-333 with 128 megs.  Not fast,
> but
> > not incredibly slow either.  (Redhat 7.3 runs on it acceptably. I have
> > not tried Redhat 9.)
> 
> Maybe the recommended hardware as listed in the beta release notes is
> there for a reason?
>  Processor:
>    - Minimum: Pentium-class
>    - Recommended for text-mode: 200 MHz Pentium-class or better
>    - Recommended for graphical: 400 MHz Pentium II or better
>  Memory:
>     - Minimum for text-mode: 64MB
>     - Minimum for graphical: 128MB
>     - Recommended for graphical: 192MB
> 
> 
> I have an k6-2 amd with 192 megs ram..and redhat 7.3 with gnome runs
> slow enough that i notice. I can't imagine the beta with gnome 2.x is
> going to be any better..in fact i expect it to be very noticeably
> slower..since that system, like yours, is below the recommended hardware
> specs. For comparison...running rhl9 and the beta on my 1 gig athlon
> with 512 megs, the gnome desktop  isn't noticable slow for most things
> (leaving obvious things like openoffice out of course). 
> 
> I think that recommended hardware as listed in the beta release notes is
> probably a good measure of what the modern (some advanced users would
> say unnecessarily bloated) desktop environments, Gnome and KDE, are
> expecting to have available to run smoothly.   Welcome to the wonderful
> world of progress.
> 
> -jef"my hunch is...rhl 8 and 9 are going to have similar performance
> penalty on that old p333"spaleta
-- 
Alan <alan at clueserver.org>