Re: Slow Gnome in a Performa 6360
Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote:
I installed Debian 2.2 in a 40MB-RAM Apple Power Macintosh
Performa 6360, I don't remember exactly but I think it is a PowerPC
603e 160 MHz.
As long as I keep in text mode (using virtual consoles) it is a
sweet machine, fast even while multitasking with lots of big
background processes, including several daemons in inetd and several
instances of Emacs, lynx, w3m and links.
My problem begins whenever I try to switch to X. I runs, but so
slow as to be unusable: even clicking a button in Control Panel with
no other window open can take several seconds, sometimes more than
five seconds.
Is it X in general, or is it just Gnome that is slow? It sounds to me
(although I'm a PPC newbie) that you are running X with the framebuffer
driver. Framebuffer has been very slow on the lower end machines I've
tried. (If you don't know what this means, you can chek it by searching
/etc/X11/XF86Config for Fbdev, and if you find this string, try to find
some webpages on setting up accelrated video on your laptop.)
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