lucky13
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Posted: Mar. 08 2007,14:02 |
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| Quote (meltdown_override @ Mar. 07 2007,22:36) | | Im thinking of disecting the 2.4 kernel and 2.6 kernel and seeing what I could mesh together to make things a little more punchier. Im still gonna keep jwm and use dillo. Does anyone have other suggestion I could try? |
What do you mean by dissecting and what do you intend to do with two kernels? "Mesh together" -- how do you intend to do that? And why? Many improvements from 2.6 are already backported in 2.4, and 2.4 retains a lot of legacy support dropped in 2.6. For the hardware you've described, there's really no justification for using a 2.6 kernel.
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Kernel hacking is a current pipe dream of mine,as I still have lots to learn about the kernel. Lucky13 your post is on the mark,however I do notice that my memory usage stays low the cpu usage is incredibly high(even in dillo) What are the known bottle necks for old laptops? One neat trick I discovered for my gateway solo was to take the battery and dvd/floppy out. This gives my system a little more speed.(in firefox there was a slight lag when rendering pages. With out the dvd installed the webpages appear almost instantly,while before the pages would slowly be redrawn downward)I changed grub to start dsl with idebus=66 as well as dma-1. Since I have a dead battery I was thinking of designing a forced air intake system using the battery casings and access to the power system.any thoughts on this?This battery should come apart with about six or eight individual cells. Does anyone have any tech info on old gateway laptops? again thinks guys for the info. 
