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Re: working xorg.conf i promised



On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Finn Thain wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Brian Morris wrote:
> > well my priority is with the q630 to have keypad support and xemacs X 
> > support first (to support my goal use it as educational development 
> > platform, exploiting the uniformity of "debian is debian"). also seems 
> > there is some other bottleneck on 630 which causes for instance very 
> > slow some Xapps which do work such as pdf viewers (looks like ~20% the 
> > speed of macos which seems unreasonable especially considering other 
> > things that work OK, although better than totally broken it is not 
> > exactly useable).
> 
> Unreasonable? Maybe... PDF viewers have almost certainly bloated since 
> early Acrobat as the format grew. But in fairness, unless these programs 
> are functionally equivalent, the comparison is a bit meaningless. You may 
> be able to find a more basic pdf viewer? (I'd give gv a shot if you 
> haven't already. I can't say I've tried it under etch myself...).

Yeah, I guess gv is a good choice.

While I _love_ the rendering quality of evince, something tells me I don't want
to run it on my poor m68k...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds


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