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[evansdimo]

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.

[cthisbear]

Specs:

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/10382_na/10382_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/DpupSqueeze5X/DpupExprimo5X15/

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-Linux-Wary-5-1-2-Is-Available-for-Download-202341.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/viewtopic.php?t=70727&sid=a86ea79ec0cfedfc38e6d5f68766f4bd


Chris

[evansdimo]

Really really thank you i will try them out and post results

[evansdimo]

No. Tried Wary 5.3 and unfortunately i still dont have hardware accelaration...

[Keef]

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.

[666philb]

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/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/

this is for seamonkey
http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmisc.html#greasemonkey

then install the viewtube script (by clicking the install button on the page)
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/87011