I have a fairly old Dell Inspiron 5150, 3.2HT w/1G ram and 64MB GeForce FX Go5200.
My problem is that I'm able to use all desktop effects (Minus blur) and have no issues whatsoever. The most current graphics drivers are installed, and X seems to work with no issues, however:
Up to a certain resolution (1024x768) games are okay. Past that res, there's a huge performance lag. Fullscreen games like Torcs or BZFlag will take minutes before I can choose menu options or even exit. I formerly used Gentoo until an emerge -u world broke the system horribly.
I know my way around some things, but when there aren't any errors to be found, I don't know where to look. X? nVidia? KDE? (I also tried the same exact setup on a Ubuntu (Gnome) with the same exact effects, so KDE would be ruled out (theoretically)
My problem is that I'm able to use all desktop effects (Minus blur) and have no issues whatsoever. The most current graphics drivers are installed, and X seems to work with no issues, however:
Up to a certain resolution (1024x768) games are okay. Past that res, there's a huge performance lag. Fullscreen games like Torcs or BZFlag will take minutes before I can choose menu options or even exit. I formerly used Gentoo until an emerge -u world broke the system horribly.
I know my way around some things, but when there aren't any errors to be found, I don't know where to look. X? nVidia? KDE? (I also tried the same exact setup on a Ubuntu (Gnome) with the same exact effects, so KDE would be ruled out (theoretically)
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