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