On Sunday 07 December 2003 05:32 pm, you wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Doug Koobs wrote:
> > I have run KDE2 on this laptop with Gentoo, and I don't recall having
Oops, it was KDE3...
>
> You mean, nothing complains when you run them, or video seems fine when
> you run them?
Ran fine on Gentoo, decent performance, norhing complains
> Somebody else commented about a high CPU-not-idle percentage. Were this
> and this
>
> > 23:27:57 up 44 min, 3 users, load average: 0.10, 0.06, 0.08
>
> when you were running different software? The load average does not
> reflect the amount of time spent in interrupts (such as the video driver,
> or USB, or serial port, or parallel port, etc.). One of the CPU states
> (system?) may. Yours is low, so no worries there.
Same software running, as far as I can recall. Maybe more instances of Mozilla
running...
> Well, W2K may have a faster video driver. Are there any options as to
> what you could choose? I know with some Nvidia cards there is.
After a little googling, I found the "accel" option. Added to the XF86config
file, helps a little in Mozilla Mail. Since everything else is now running
good, I'll just use KMail instead. Thanks for all the help!
Doug
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