Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Midland, Texas
Posts: 231

I have noticed a slow down of my system since installing the stowaway driver. Anyone else? (I have installed many new programs lately, and perhaps it is another program, or an interaction between stowaway and something else that is the cause.) I mainly notice the slow down when scrolling with the hard buttons. There is a slight delay between my press and the screen's response.

Or perhaps I am just so used to AfterBurner at 26MHz that "normal" is the actual "slow down." 8)

tyler

Registered: Dec 1999
Location: Connecticut USA
Posts: 2682

I see an overall slowdown when the Stowaway driver is enabled as well. Just as you describe, it's most noticeable when scrolling (using the buttons or tapping on-screen scroll bars). I've just adopted a policy of disabling the driver until I'm ready for the keyboard.

While the Stowaway is really cool and handy, I only really use it maybe 3 or 4 times a week (it's rather hard to type when one is "mobile" most of the time - the whole reason I got a Visor in the first place )



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Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Midland, Texas
Posts: 231

Glad to get confirmation. I recall that this was an issue with the 1.0 version of the Palm stowaway driver. (They now have a 1.1 beta that apparently solves this.) So it seems reasonable to see the issue in the 1.0 for the Visor.

I am in touch with Targus about this, but I wanted to make sure that I wasn't the only one with the slow down before I asked if anyone thought their response had any merit. Their response is that they think I have too much installed on my Visor. (I have about 850K of free memory right now.) They want me to delete some things and see if that helps.

I don't know how this could possibly help as I can directly corrolate the slow down to wether or not the keyboard is enabled. They said that the memory handling of the Visor is not like a Windows machine (well shucks, I at least figured that), and deleting stuff would likely help. (Now I'm lost.) I am not a technical expert on this device, but I sure haven't noticed slow downs as I add programs. I did read that the keyboard driver uses "traps" similar to some Hacks, and that these can cause system slow downs. But just delete "some of my applications"? This doesn't seem beneficial to me. (And I really don't want to go through the process of deleting and later reinstalling just to find out.) What am I missing? Any experts out there?

tyler

[This message has been edited by tyler (edited 05-26-2000).]

Registered: Apr 2000
Location:
Posts: 266

I am not an expert, but I have been using my Stowaway for about a month now, and I haven't noticed any slowdown.

I played around last night with the driver enabled and not enabled, and didn't see any differences.

I do have a bit more space than you do, I think I am only using half of my 8mb.....perhaps it is the Stowaway driver and something else?

Ryan

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: bright side of the moon.
Posts: 996

The only problem i've had with the stowaway has been the 'dot' command on graffitti when writing. If the keyboard is enabled, the 'dot' command doesn't stay when i try and write a punctuation mark. Once the keyboard is 'disabled' it works fine.

No slowdowns for me either (i have about 2MB left on my visor).

Registered: Feb 2000
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 165

I had a slowdown problem the other day while in a meeting; the cursor would freeze for 10-15 seconds at a time, but the Visor worked fine if I pulled it off of the keyboard. The only thing I had installed since the Stowaway driver was the OS 3.1.1 update patch, so I pulled that off without improvement. My batteries were also running on the low side, so I figured that was probably the problem.

Strangely, though, the problem hasn't reoccurred since then, and I haven't changed the batteries yet... maybe it just wasn't seated on the Keyboard quite right or something.

The other thing that I've noticed is that if you place the cursor up at the top of a long e-mail or memo document and start typing, the Visor response can be VERY slow indeed.

Registered: Mar 2000
Location: NJ
Posts: 517

I too have noticed a slow down. I thought it might have been due to the fact that I installed Noah and took up a bunch of space. I notice the slow down when using Cspotrun, using auto scroll. During a game op Zap! 2000 there was also a few pauses (never happened before). I'm not entirely convinced this is due to the Stowaway drivers, but something has caused my Visor to slow down. I have 3400K free of RAM.