[TriLUG] Ubuntu 5.10 not so Breezy w/64MB RAM

[John Wheeler]

Thanks for all the responses guys.
I had bit of trouble getting the correct nvidia drivers for this card  
installed.
It's an old 8MB Vanta LT so i had to use legacy drivers.
After it was all said and done the Legacy drivers SOMEHOW caused  
Ubuntu to quit recognizing my Belkin Wireless G card as a network  
device  by default.
No ndiswrapper fixes helped. But in the end I didn't see any speed  
advantages to using the official Nvidia drivers anyway.

I guess what it comes down to is old hardware.
I was interested in the xubuntu-desktop idea as it appears to be a  
lighter desktop... but I couldn't find it in the Aptitude packages  
listings.
I only saw references to it on the ubuntu site. I'm going to  
investigate further.

Any other suggestions as to lighter desktop options would be  
appreciated.
Again, all the suggestions were great. Thanks a lot!

John Wheeler

On Mar 1, 2006, at 10:03 AM, Pat Regan wrote:

> John Wheeler wrote:
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I have installed Ubuntu 5.10 onto an AMD Athalon 700Mhz box w/  
>> 64MB RAM.
>> I am impressed with it's ability to identify all of my hardware off
>> the bat. Of course my issue is that the windows draw SO slow with my
>> limited RAM.
>>
>
> The problem may be your video drivers.  Ubuntu may not have chosen
> accelerated drivers for your video card (VESA or Framebuffer  
> instead of
> a driver for your specific chipset).  It is also possible that it  
> picked
> the correct driver, but the driver doesn't support acceleration at a
> depth of 24 bpp.
>
> Look at your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.  Check the "Device" section for your
> video card, it should have a Driver entry.  Also, check the "Screen"
> section, and try changing "DefaultDepth" to 16.  You will need to
> restart your X server ("/etc/init.d/gdm restart" should do the trick).
>
> There may very well be some proper Ubuntu way to do this, or some
> setting you can find in the GUI somewhere.  If there is, I have never
> looked for it :).
>
> Pat
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