Re: Slow Gnome in a Performa 6360
Håvard Wigtil wrote:
>
> 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.
On such machines, you want to try XFree86 4.1.0. 4.1.0-1 has been uploaded and
will be available soon, in the meantime use Branden's test packages.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
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