On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 15:49 +0000, carmen wrote: > > I've been using KDE, and upon reccomendation I tried FVWM as it's > > lighter, but I had the same number (lots!) of xruns and problems. It did > > run slightly better; I had 9 extra megs of ram free but realistically I > > want no xruns. I'm not running a patched kernel as I'm unable to find > > out what patches SUSE needs to run that conflict with the realtime > > patches. My kernel is 2.6.11 atm. Any advice? Apologies as this is > > id upgrade to a kernel that is less ancient. Agreed > and try something like fluxbox or wmii. the former at least has a panel with a system tray. which is most of what Gnome or KDE offers for the desktop at significantly less cost. if you still want to load up a GUI file manager now and then nothing is stopping you from installing Thunar... > > > xruns could be due to your preemption settings (in kernel .config) or video drivers. but trimming the fat off your desktop can't hurt. > Disagree, using Fluxbox over Gnome is not likely to make a difference with a recent kernel. Lee
