From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.100.18]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2670240 for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:09:35 -0400 Message-ID: <4A5E1B61.8070802@2rosenthals.com> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:09:37 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090411 MultiZilla/1.8.3.5g SeaMonkey/1.1.16 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] about the T61p video driver References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 07/15/09 01:50 pm, Lothar Frommhold thus wrote : > Hello everyone! > > The installation of eCS RC6a on a T61p was straight-forward, at least > for everything I really need. There is one feature though that is less > than what one needs, concerning the video driver. I use Snap at > 1040x760 (or so), 16 MB depth, and it is SLOW. Directory listings of > many files take too much time; the light box mode of PMView takes too > long to display; work with the browser (seamonkey) is often very slow, > etc. Would someone have a suggestion of what one could try to speed up > the display some? Is there a way? Lother, are you certain that SDDHELP.SYS is getting loaded in CONFIG.SYS? Sluggish video is usually a Panorama complaint, and performance can be greatly enhanced (even Panorama's) by using the SDD helper driver (though there are some other side effects when using it with Panorama). -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com Warpstock - Albuquerque, NM, Aug 7-9, 2009 www.warpstock.org -------------------------------------------------------------