Running KDE and Mandrake 9.1
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I have installed mandrake 9.1 - all went fine. Initially tried to use KDE as the default GUI - Once tried to boot up it seemed to get to the GUI interface (had a blue screen) then it seemed to hang up. Reinstalled 9.1 and choose Gnome this time and all worked fine. But can only access the Gnome modules - can't get any of the KDE games, for instance, to work - they start to load - a white window flashed onto the screen and off again before the title at the top of it can be read and then nothing else appears - can still continue to use Gnome though.
I have installed onto a clean system
AMD K2 350 CPU - 256MG RAM - S3 video card (4mb ram) - 10 Gb HDD that came out of am IBM computer
Any help would be appreciated - Very Very new to Linux so any help in word of one syllable (or less)
thanks
I have installed mandrake 9.1 - all went fine. Initially tried to use KDE as the default GUI - Once tried to boot up it seemed to get to the GUI interface (had a blue screen) then it seemed to hang up. Reinstalled 9.1 and choose Gnome this time and all worked fine. But can only access the Gnome modules - can't get any of the KDE games, for instance, to work - they start to load - a white window flashed onto the screen and off again before the title at the top of it can be read and then nothing else appears - can still continue to use Gnome though.
I have installed onto a clean system
AMD K2 350 CPU - 256MG RAM - S3 video card (4mb ram) - 10 Gb HDD that came out of am IBM computer
Any help would be appreciated - Very Very new to Linux so any help in word of one syllable (or less)
thanks
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If I may be blunt, I'd forget any notion of running KDE on a system like that as it's likely to be too slow. In fact, I'd go so far as to say to forget running a Desktop Environment altogether and install a simple Window Manager like Blackbox or Fluxbox as neither of these bring even a fraction of the amount of overhead a full desktop does. One thing you might want to check out though is xfce which is supposed to be a fairly lightweight desktop although I don't have any practical experience with it.
The specs are very low. Being a kde user, I will admit to the fact that kde is heavy on the resources, and that system that you describe is painfully weak for recent window managers.
get fluxbox.
Zambarra
get fluxbox.
Zambarra
I am running KDE in Mandrake 9.1 with the same processor and memory. The MAIN difference is the video memory. I have an old RIVA TNT 2, which is 16Mb. Yours is, 4Mb?! Get a better video card and you will be fine. Also, what is your swap file size?
he has an s3 card and was lucky to get x working seamlessly. s3 cards are bad news for xfree86.
