Gnome , lightweight tricks

[James Wilkinson]

fabiano wrote:

> I've installed FC2+gnome on this machine:
> 
> p3 700 sis630 176megs (effective) memory
> 800*600 16millions colors

That's 176 MB effective memory as in 192 MB memory less 16 MB for the
SiS graphics?

Do you need that much memory for graphics? You should be able to get
away with just 2 MB, if you don't do any 3D graphics.

You should be able to change this in the system BIOS.

Hope this helps,

James.

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