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  3. RAM & swap

    in Hardware

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    Hi there, i have some questions regurding my memory usage.

    I'm running Gnome 2.6 on a pretty slow mashine (see below) and that is what my system monitor shows:

     

     

    - sould swap space be partially full when i still got some room in RAM?

    - what is exact porpuse of swap?

    - the high peaks in cpu history => me moving a window, it can jump even up to 100%. Is that normal?

     

     

    [moved from Software by spinynorman]

  5. Theming Gnome

    in Art And Design

    Posted

    I've rcently moved to GNOME and now want to alter its appearence.

    It is possible to download GTK themes and METACITY. What is the difference between this two types and on what part of a window are they responsible?

    Thanks.

  8. Maybe I just got the wrong distro?

    in Software

    Posted

    While Linux is remarkably fast, the window managers really do make a difference. I hope this helps sway your decision to a lighter wm (perhaps other than XFce).

    Yes, i understand what you're saying. During last two weeks i reinstalled various versions of MDK for 3 times, all becouse my unsuccessfull experiments. I started with installing xfce4 on 10.1 and it didn't want to work properly: i had missing taskbar and it crushed randomly. I thought that's about time for me to upgrade to 2006, so i updated 10.1 - total disaster. MCC crushed, urpmi didn't work, KDE stalled... I formatted and reinstalled. 2006 is a good peace of software, but terrebly slow, even with xfce4 that i mannaged to install eventually. And then, i went back to 10.1 - that never coused me any trouble. If i'll have to reinstall something one more time - there is a good chanse that i would kill someone :wall: ==> :hanged:

     

    P.S. If i'll change my mind, is one CD enough for updating from 10.1 to 10.2?

     

    Thanks

  9. Maybe I just got the wrong distro?

    in Software

    Posted

    Mandriva2005-LE (which was really 10.2) was a hell of an improvement over 10.1 and has proven to be more advanced and stable than 10.1 ever was. Therefore Daniel made an excellent suggestion which would be very worthwhile your considering.

     

    Cheers. John.

     

    What version of KDE/GNOME does it use? I afraid that newer versions will slow me down...

  12. Oldies you enjoyed

    in Games

    Posted

    Owww yeah! How could I ever forget Commander Keen?

     

    And Dune belongs to my list too, but the original one. Never played Dune II.

     

    Dune & Dune 2 are very similar, like doom & doom2

    What about 'Prehistotic'?

  18. 1280 x 1024 resolution on Mandriva 2006 [solved]

    in Hardware

    Posted

    You could simply change by hand

     

    Virtual 1152 864

     

    to

     

    Virtual 1280 960

    (which is real 4:3)

    or

    Virtual 1280 1024

    ...which is the more common choice in your "display" subsections and get what you want, but since you solved it another way I guess it could be considered odd...

     

    I don't quiet get what you said :mellow:

    Explain please...

     

    I changed the mode line from:

    'ModeLine "1280x1024" 108 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync'

    to:

    'ModeLine "1280x1024" 135.60 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync'

  21. 1280 x 1024 resolution on Mandriva 2006 [solved]

    in Hardware

    Posted

    Check whether the package......monitor-edid...... has been installed. If not then install it.

     

    Best to reboot and then when completed you open MCC----------->Hardware-------------->Configure your monitor and double click on the highlighted line titled Plug'n Play.

    Close out then log out and back in again.

    This time open KDE Control Centre ---------------------Peripherals ----------> Display and select your screen size etc there. Click apply.

     

    You might need to log out and in again but by now you should be OK. There are not too many Monitor types that monitor-edid can't handle.

     

    Cheers. John.

     

    I have that package installed and KDE Control Center does the same, i mean it shows the options that i've seen in the xorg.conf.

     

    I've installed the MandrivaLinux Free 2006 on my old box.

    At first, i decided to upgrade previous installation (MDK 10.1), and so i did. The screen was allright (1280 x 1024 res).

     

    I remember that with 2005LE i had the same problem. I think there are 2 possibilities:

     

    1) MDK 10.1 has better tdfx video driver

    2) MDK 10.1 uses older version of xorg that still can handle my card

     

    Can i install some 10.1 RPM on 2006 that is somehow connected to the issue?

  23. 1280 x 1024 resolution on Mandriva 2006 [solved]

    in Hardware

    Posted

    And what about this: my video card is AGP, but according to MCC:

    Identification
Vendor: ‎3Dfx Interactive, Inc.

Description: ‎Voodoo Banshee

Media class: ‎DISPLAY_VGA

Connection
Bus: ‎PCI

Bus PCI #: ‎1

PCI device #: ‎0

PCI function #: ‎0

Vendor ID: ‎4634

Device ID: ‎3

Sub vendor ID: ‎65535

Sub device ID: ‎65535

Misc
Module: ‎Card:Voodoo Banshee (generic)

  24. 1280 x 1024 resolution on Mandriva 2006 [solved]

    in Hardware

    Posted

    Can you copypaste the useful lines from your /etc/X11/xorg.conf here?

    Section "Monitor"
Identifier "monitor1"
VendorName "Plug'n Play"
ModelName "L1750SQ "
HorizSync 30-83
VertRefresh 56-75

# Monitor preferred modeline (60.0 Hz vsync, 64.0 kHz hsync, ratio 5/4)
ModeLine "1280x1024" 108 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync

# TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output.
# 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync
ModeLine "768x576"	 50.00  768  832  846 1000   576  590  595  630

# 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync
ModeLine "768x576"	 63.07  768  800  960 1024   576  578  590  616

# modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake]
ModeLine "1152x864_120"  176.01  1152 1240 1368 1584  864 865 868 926  -HSync +Vsync

# modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake]
ModeLine "1152x864_100"  143.47  1152 1232 1360 1568  864 865 868 915  -HSync +Vsync

# modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake]
ModeLine "1152x864_85"  119.65  1152 1224 1352 1552  864 865 868 907  -HSync +Vsync

# modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake]
ModeLine "1152x864_75"  104.99  1152 1224 1352 1552  864 865 868 902  -HSync +Vsync

# modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake]
ModeLine "1152x864_60"  81.62  1152 1216 1336 1520  864 865 868 895  -HSync +Vsync

# modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake]
ModeLine "1152x864_50"  66.85  1152 1208 1328 1504  864 865 868 889  -HSync +Vsync
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
VendorName "3Dfx Interactive, Inc."
BoardName "Voodoo Banshee (generic)"
Driver "tdfx"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "screen1"
Device "device1"
Monitor "monitor1"
DefaultColorDepth 24

Subsection "Display"
	Depth 8
	Virtual 1152 864
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
	Depth 15
	Virtual 1152 864
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
	Depth 16
	Virtual 1152 864
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
	Depth 24
	Virtual 1152 864
EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Screen "screen1"
EndSection

Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "unix/:-1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
Load "dri" # direct rendering
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

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