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[Maximilian Federle <max.federle AT googlemail.com>]

Am Sonntag, den 27.08.2006, 13:44 +1200 schrieb
3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org:
> Maximilian Federle wrote:
> >
> > With IceWM the speed is almost ok, scrolling in firefox 
> > is however not very snappy... :) 
> 
> True, micro-scrolling on my laptop Xterminal is sluggish.
> I normally do page down.
> 
> > I can't believe this is the best possible as I've read
> > howtos describing this method as "almost equal performant" 
> > as sitting directly in front of the host.
> 
> I think my laptop Xterminal (75MHz) is slower than yours
> and I've been quite happy with the performance.
> 
> > On the host it's a 0000:02:07.0 Multimedia audio controller
> 
> Is that your ethernet controller?  Multimedia too?
> What speed ethernet?  10Mbps?  100Mbps?
> 
> > and on the laptop a microlink ethernet pcmcia card.
> 
> 10Mbps?  
> 
> > Should be fast enough
> 
> What are your ping times?
> 
> > Probably linking the two network cards with a crosslink cable 
> > should give max. performance, what do you think?
> 
> That's what I do. 
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
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I have soldered my own crossover cable and it's perfectly working.
Can I probably have a seperate xorg.conf for the laptop on my host where
I can set e.g color depth (that should give a performance boost I
guess) ?

Finally I have to say that Basic Linux is just great. Small, supports
all the hardware and is so easy to use. I like it :)

Greetings

Max