Re: Slow performance in X Windows
have you tried using a light-weight WM such as Fluxbox, BlackBoc, IceWM,
ect?
I use fluxbox on my 8500, with its built-in video, and it seems to work
pretty well. (passing the argument: video=ofonly) and running X @
1024x768x15
-dylan
on 03.5.27 11:10 PM, Mich Lanners at mlan@cpu.lu was reported to have
writen:
> On 27 May, this message from mushis@mail.lafayette.edu echoed through
> cyberspace:
>> I have had Debian 3.0r1 (woody) running on my beige G3 (333Mhz, 512Mb
>> Ram) pretty smoothly for the past few weeks after giving up on the CD
>> install and doing everything via http (thank God for fast .edu
>> connections!). But I have noticed that both KDe and Gnome run very
>> slowly... I wonder if it is my 1024x768 resolution... and the 6mb of
>> VRAM on my onboard ATI Mach64 card that are to blame.,..... but even
>> then menus load slowly ... and drag and drop operations on the
>> desktop are sometimes unresponsive. .....
>>
>> Are there any other users of debian on geige G3s that have this
>> problem?
>
> I have no hard numbers to provide, but I can confirm that X 'feels' dog
> slow on my beige G3 at work (same video hardware as yours). I find my
> old 7600 with it's crappy build-in 'control' video adaptor much more
> responsive. This is all at the same settings on both: 1152x864@32bits.
>
> What you can try to make it appear faster is reduce color depth. That
> reduces the amount of data to shuffle around.
>
> Cheers
>
> Michel
>
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