I've bought a Dell Optiplex FX160 with Intel Atom N230 and (this is the problem) a 82945G graphics controller.
2 GByte SSD Harddrive
1 GByte DDR2 Ram
I want to run Porteus in textmode only.
The graphics is so extremly slowly, that I'm not really able to scroll a ncurse based application in textmode. What can I do ?
Older thin clients like HP 5000 with 700 MHz CPU and 256 MByte Ram runs smoother than the Optiplex !
Graphics with intel 945G extremly slow
- jjflash
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Graphics with intel 945G extremly slow
I'm an old man, but I'm stil in learning process
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Perhaps its a modesetting issue,
Please post the output of following commands
lspci -knn
lsmod
You may redirect them to a file first to be able to upload.
If KMS enabled driver (like i915) is not used then you may try enabling standard VESA framebuffer with following cheatcode:
Thanks
Please post the output of following commands
lspci -knn
lsmod
You may redirect them to a file first to be able to upload.
If KMS enabled driver (like i915) is not used then you may try enabling standard VESA framebuffer with following cheatcode:
Code: Select all
vga=792
Please add [Solved] to your thread title if the solution was found.
- jjflash
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Graphics with intel 945G extremly slow
Thanks for replying my "request",
I've maid a fault:
I have two peaces of Optiplex FX160 and I'm bewildered due to the fact, that one has an i945 graphics chip and the other has a SIS 671 chip. This I've found out by entering lspci -knn.
The one with the Intel Chip works fine. So the extremly slow one is this one with SIS on it.
I've made a search in the internet and now I know: The "problem" is, the chip is very slow and thats not the fault of Linux / Porteus !
So the problem is "solved", thanks a lot to fanthom
JJ
PS: excuse my bad english, I'm an old native german speaking man who has never learned english in a correct way
I've maid a fault:
I have two peaces of Optiplex FX160 and I'm bewildered due to the fact, that one has an i945 graphics chip and the other has a SIS 671 chip. This I've found out by entering lspci -knn.
The one with the Intel Chip works fine. So the extremly slow one is this one with SIS on it.
I've made a search in the internet and now I know: The "problem" is, the chip is very slow and thats not the fault of Linux / Porteus !
So the problem is "solved", thanks a lot to fanthom
JJ
PS: excuse my bad english, I'm an old native german speaking man who has never learned english in a correct way
I'm an old man, but I'm stil in learning process
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Graphics with intel 945G extremly slow
Even SIS GPU should be good enough for text mode.
Please enable VESA framebuffer with 'vga=792' parameter and check if that helps. If this resolution is not supported then you may try these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS ... de_numbers
Thanks
Please enable VESA framebuffer with 'vga=792' parameter and check if that helps. If this resolution is not supported then you may try these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS ... de_numbers
Thanks
Please add [Solved] to your thread title if the solution was found.