Optimizing "janitor"
Janitor is my laptop; I've used it for I think more than two years; even though you might consider it "old", I'm quite comfortable with it. Janitor is a Dell Inspiron 1300 with 2 GB of memory; even though it hasn't a top performing processor, its wide screen makes it very handy for my developing activites. As I already told, in the recent past I had some troubles, caused by the internal fan which cheased working all of sudden. After a lot of work, I finally made the thing I should have done in the first place: call the Dell assistance; they provided me with the obvious suggestion (i.e. to try cleaning the fan with compressed air) and it worked very well. In the mean time, however, I tried everything else. So, I found a number of optimizations for the Inspiron and for the graphic card (which was the one showing most problems when the fan was not working). In the end, I configured the device section of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf as follows: Section "Device" ...