If your video card is really on 2mb, that might be an issue.  Take a
look at the color depth you are using, and try setting it to a lower
value and see if that speeds things up.  I have seen this problem on
mb's with shared memory video cards and low ram.

Jason


John W wrote:
> 
> I am running Linux Mandrake 7.1 on an AMD K62 500Mhz,Asus P5A mobo,64
> MB,Western Digital 15.3G,Diamond stealth 2mb vid card on an S3 x server @
> 1024x768. I am dualbooting  win98 on the first 7 gigs and linux has the rest
> of the HD. I seem to have a 5-7 second delay when launching any graphical
> application such as netscape,gimp etc. Opening a terminal window is
> instantaneous. maybe this is normal tyhough I seem to rember hearing that
> Linux opened apps faster than windows. I am curious if their is something
> simple that may be causing this or if it is normal under a GUI or perhaps
> just my dog of a vid card.
> Thanks,
> John
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