Hello to all in forum.
I have an old laptop "Compaq Armada M700" with a Pentium 3 at 497MHz , 320mb memory and an ATI Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x.
Installed Slacko puppy 5.5 (full install at hard disk.)
Everything went fine but video performance is poor (due to the need of hardware accelaration?) Flash video on youtube really poor... Small videos poor on player... Xorg drivers work but cant find a way to install ATIs drivers.
Do i ask too much from a Pentium 3 or is it possible with Slacko to see some good performance in videos. What do i need to do?
I also installed Zorin lite edition and video performance is working a lot better but i got no internet and really like Slacko a lot better.
Sorry for the long post and looking forward for any answer.
Slacko 5.5 poor video performance in Compaq Armada M700
Specs:
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quic ... 82_na.HTML
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Go for an older Slacko
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76279
http://www.smokey01.com/01micko/slacko/slacko-5.3.3.2/
or Lucid 5.28 version 5
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=70855
Classic Pup
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=42553
Akita
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=67811
Dpup Exprimo
http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/DpupSque ... primo5X15/
Kinda Lucid Puppy 006
My upload for Kinda Lucid
http://www.4shared.com/file/7sqsvU0p/klp-006.html
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=57371
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Others mentioned here...barebone pups
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76562
Wary
http://bkhome.org/wary/
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Puppy-Li ... 2341.shtml
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And just saw this..
Which Wary support ATI Rage 128 pro and openGL? [SOLVED]
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... f68766f4bd
Chris
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quic ... 82_na.HTML
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Go for an older Slacko
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76279
http://www.smokey01.com/01micko/slacko/slacko-5.3.3.2/
or Lucid 5.28 version 5
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=70855
Classic Pup
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=42553
Akita
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=67811
Dpup Exprimo
http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/DpupSque ... primo5X15/
Kinda Lucid Puppy 006
My upload for Kinda Lucid
http://www.4shared.com/file/7sqsvU0p/klp-006.html
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=57371
"""""""""
Others mentioned here...barebone pups
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76562
Wary
http://bkhome.org/wary/
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Puppy-Li ... 2341.shtml
:::::::::::
And just saw this..
Which Wary support ATI Rage 128 pro and openGL? [SOLVED]
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... f68766f4bd
Chris
I've got M700s with 450 and 850 cpus. (Currently running a Toshiba Satellite Pro M10, and moved the HDD over).
Slacko is not a good choice on either (although only did frugal installs), but the other suggestions are better.
Just in case Starhawk is lurking around, I'll get in first and say 214X ran best on the 450
Try using one of the youtube downloaders, or if that doesn't appeal, try lowering the resolution on YouTube to the lowest. This worked well with the 850, but I wouldn't expect a lot from your machine though.
Slacko is not a good choice on either (although only did frugal installs), but the other suggestions are better.
Just in case Starhawk is lurking around, I'll get in first and say 214X ran best on the 450
Try using one of the youtube downloaders, or if that doesn't appeal, try lowering the resolution on YouTube to the lowest. This worked well with the 850, but I wouldn't expect a lot from your machine though.
for youtube there's a greasemonkey script called viewtube, that plays youtube videos with mplayer in the browser .....
this is for firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... asemonkey/
this is for seamonkey
http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmisc ... easemonkey
then install the viewtube script (by clicking the install button on the page)
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/87011
this is for firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... asemonkey/
this is for seamonkey
http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmisc ... easemonkey
then install the viewtube script (by clicking the install button on the page)
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/87011
Bionicpup64 built with bionic beaver packages http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=114311
Xenialpup64, built with xenial xerus packages http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=107331
Xenialpup64, built with xenial xerus packages http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=107331