Try running a system monitor (I use gnome-system-monitor.) to see where your memory and CPU cycles are going. I recently found a problem with my sound system in just this way. See my posting "alsa vs. aRts". Jonathan Ryshpan On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 09:50, boby wrote: > I have installed fedora core 1 on my computer, after 2 days > challenging with display adaptor .the motherboard is asus p4vp-mx > with s3 prosavage k133 , via VT6103 ethernet card and CPU is celeron. > now every thing is fine,other than speed, specialy when > the color depth of display is a milioncolors.i redused the > the resolution to 256 color.it is better now but steel slow. the other > thing is fedora recognized NIC as a VT6102 which is defferent but > working . > is it fedora core 1 is slow at all or maybe ethernet driver or display > adaptor is not recognized properly by fedora . > any suggestion would be great help.