I did consider that possibility Eddie and it may well limit my ultimate choice of desktop. I am hoping that the main limiting factor is the lack of system memory rather than video memory. However, I will have to wait for a couple of days to find out.
Thanks for your input. Phil On 7 Sep 2014 23:36, "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." <eoconno...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 09/07/2014 06:29 PM, Bat Phil wrote: > > After a weekend of installing and re-installing, I thought I would > share what I have found: > > Hardware setup: > > AMD Semperon 300+ (old) > 64MB AGP graphics card > 1GB DDR400 RAM > 160GB HD configured as follows..... > 500MB boot partition > 10GB swap partition > 142GB root partition > 250GB HD configured at home partition > > > I have tried the following installs, in order: > > Gnome desktop (64 and 32 bit) - desktop crashes at login and will not > work > Mate desktop (64 bit) - works fine > Cinnamon desktop (64 and 32 bit) - desktop crashes as soon as I run an > application > LXDE desktop (32 and 64 bit) - works fine but some warnings flashed when > updating via YUM (something about unknown metadata) > > > I set up two user accounts, put some data in the home folders and > configured Thunderbird on both accounts (did this on the Mate install). > On subsequent installs, I mapped the home partition to my data drive and it > mapped straight to the home directory structure previously set up - all the > data is there, as are the e-mail settings and browsing history. All this > without any further intervention. > > Unfortunately, the current LXDE install won't let me create any > additional users for some reason (despite having set my account up as > administrator), so I can't yet confirm that my second account will also map > to the pre-existing home folder for that user, but I have no reason to > believe it won't. > > I'll have another play when the new memory arrives, I still want to try > Gnome and KDE, but I do like the look of Cinnamon so far (despite not > being able to get it to work yet). > > Many thanks to everyone who contributed their knowledge and opinions. > > Phil > > > > > On 5 September 2014 21:22, Joe Zeff <j...@zeff.us> wrote: > >> On 09/05/2014 01:08 PM, Bat Phil wrote: >> >>> Best thing then is to set up a 2-drive system, put some non-critical >>> data files in the home directories and try it out then. Although >>> presumably, if I do manage to balls up the IDs and block the data, then >>> it's just a case of logging in as root and sorting out permissions?? >>> >> >> Generally speaking, yes. Even more important, be sure to back up /home >> before you start this, just to be on the safe side. >> -- >> users mailing list >> users@lists.fedoraproject.org >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct >> Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >> > > > > I'm going to go out on a limb and say it could be that the graphics card > isn't "strong" enough?...I mean 64MB?....I don't know off hand what the > memory requirements are for a standard Gnome desktop...but I'm thinking it > might need more than that?.I do know that I have machines with 256MB > graphics and they run fine..but nothing under that....(so far!)....I dunno > I guess if I'm wrong then no worries...since I'm not a "guru" or even a > "professional" on any level! Just adding my two cents.... > > > EGO II > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > >
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