Re: Hardware reticensy

On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 20:36 +0200, SzXra GyXrgy wrote:
community,
I submit to you my plain request as wether exchanging my video card
would fix the fault. My concern issue looks like
as follows:
Not knowing wether anybody among you had noticed yet the phenomenon when
ancient hardware and a relative new system clach ?
I have a P III. PC desktop with FC4 running on it for a year or so.That
configuration has been me working faultless till now.
Recently I sensed and set about a release renewal and installed RC6
release. I did not dare try a more andvanced distro fearing a clash
betveen my P III PC and the newest (Fedora8).
Although in relevant README from Fedora 6 release I did not noticed
any deficiency regarding the requirement of OS's release.
I have abundantly of CPU 1.3 Gb and 500 SDRAM. I dare say to add it
more- all my hardware ingredient were assembled of brand new qualities.
though till now the whole is becoming a little old, I must admit. But
not wanting to buy a new PC for the time being.
In spite of all this favourable conditions and to my sorry
the (Gnome ) desktop environment of my new installation shows up odd
behaviour. All destop images are miniaturized and what is more the
configuration utilities are blocked to work. I did not succeded
configure neither PPP dial-up nor CUPS for printer. The GUI's
interactive panels keep itself each time faint or eclipsed. This
suggests me there may be somewehre a clash between GUI of Fedora newer
release and my disposable Motherboard (Soltek with Via chipset) or VGA
(Nvidia 17 Geforce4MX 4000).
Don't you think a better VGA might fix this anomaly instead of buying an
up to date PC ?
Any suggestion may be highly appreciated with best regards
Gy Szara

Hi Gy,
Just to throw in my situation rather than advice, I have FC6 running
fine on 2 PII's, one 233MHz 512MbRAM and the other 400MHz with 256
MbRAM. They are not fast, but work fine. One of these days when there
is plenty of spare time, I'll try F8 on them to see what happens. I'll
leave it to others more experienced to comment on the video situation.

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Regards
Simon

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