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sidaphextwin

Member

Registered: 2011-04-23

Posts: 3

Acer Aspire 5253 Slow with archlinux

Hello,
I have an Acer Aspire 5253 laptop with the following characteristics:

6Gb RAM
2 cpu's AMD 1.2 GHz 64-bit
Ati radeon hd 6250
500Gb HDD

Archlinux use for about a year. I have used many of the other distributions
existing linux and my experience with these has been quite frustrating.

Gnome3 - Gnome-shell:

The free drivers do not support for 3D and everything works quite slow. menus
running slow and when I open more than 3-4 windows all works pretty bad.
With proprietary drivers experience with gnome-shell is reduced to shit.

KDE:

Works better than gnome 3, much more fluid. The problem is that when I open several
windows desktop becomes slow. Eg. Use GIMP and paint with the brush is
delay between the mouse and the lines painted.

XFCE:

It works better than Gnome 3 and KDE but I wonder: Why use a archlinux
laptop with 6GB of ram and a "good" graphics card if I can not even draw
with a brush in GIMP?

Could anyone advise me to use my laptop so that you can leverage your hardware without problems?

johnm

Member

Registered: 2018-01-25

Posts: 1

Re: Acer Aspire 5253 Slow with archlinux

I have issues but run arch anyway on this same laptop... i have been experimenting with some ideas... running zen kernel and loading "amd palm" drivers I got my 3d acceleration working for now... my sound still only works with earphones (this one is really annoying, heh) and my cardreader doesn't work... usb works on the left port only the 2 right side ports don't work at all... but I am also trying to learn to code my own drivers, so hopefully eventually i will have this lappy running perfect... but the zen kernel and utilizing some of the vmware drivers seems like the easiest route as that got my gpu to actually render 3d stuff

Last edited by johnm (2018-01-25 15:01:38)

x33a

Forum Fellow

Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: Acer Aspire 5253 Slow with archlinux

Thanks for the post johnm, but I doubt if sidaphextwin is still waiting after 6 years

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … bumping.22

Closing thread.