On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:49:08 +0200 Florian Philipp wrote: > David Relson schrieb: ...[snip]... > > Problem 2 - video. The ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 seems to have only > > minimal support (VGA - 640x480x8) using the latest drivers in > > portage, i.e. ati-drivers-8.40.4. I figured I could get at least > > 1024x768 using generic ATI support (with better resolution in the > > future when up-to-date drivers are available). > > vesa should provide higher resolutions (or do you need wide screen? > I've got no experiences with that.)
Excellent tip! Using vesa instead of radeon gives the resolution to which I'm accustomed. As the old video board has limited memory, I can now experiment with higher resolutions. > > Problem 3 - really low hard drive performance. I presume it's just > > tweaking that can be done after (if?) the video problem can be > > corrected. > > I don't see how video affects hdd performance. Playing around with > hdparm could indeed make solving your other problems a bit more > comfortable. Video doesn't directly affect hd performance. Video is, however, a show stopper --- if one doesn't have usable video hard drive performance doesn't matter :-> Again, thanks for the vesa tip. Regards, David -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
