On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 09:36, Alexander H.M. Ruoff wrote: > Now I ask myself if Fedora would also work on my old K6-200 with 96 MB > Ram? I tested the Knoppix CD and even though it is slow and I shouldn't > "play" around with OpenOffice, KDE runs without a problem. I wonder if I > could use a naked version of Fedora with KDE or Gnome just as a "toy" > and maybe as a server to get into networking. I would not try using it as a server and a desktop at once. If you intend to run a desktop then I would suggest disabling every service you don't need. (Even sendmail if you can.) If you use it as a server then boot to runlevel 3. The standard XFree86 consumes considerable memory. GNOME should work fine on a 200 MHz with 96 MB RAM. XFCE may run much better. KDE is very uncomfortable even on my K6-2 500 MHz with 256 MB RAM. GNOME works great on my 500 MHz. With sufficient memory GNOME is usable even on a system as slow as a Pentium 75 MHz. If you don't have much RAM then you may want to install a kdrive X server. On this Pentium 133 laptop X memory usage dropped from 40 MB to 4 MB by switching to kdrive. That greatly improved the performance at the cost of some X features (missing some screensavers, opengl, cursor shadows, etc). I tried and failed to rebuild the XFree86 RPM with kdrive enabled as (Mike Harris?) explained in a post last October. So, I downloaded the kdrive X servers from the RULE Project. There is no kdrive server for this laptop's Neomagic chipset and the chipset does not work with VESA. So, I used the kdrive Xfbdev server. I changed grub.conf to boot with the vga=788 kernel option (800x600x16-bit framebuffer). In gdm.conf I set "VTAllocation=false" and changed the X server entries to this: /usr/X11R6/bin/Xfbdev -screen 800x600x16 -2button -dpi 84 -audit 0 -- David Norris http://www.webaugur.com/dave/ ICQ - 412039
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