3 newbie questions (colour depth, wvdial & overall sluggishness)
This might be the wrong place to post such evidently juvenile questions
but I haven't found any other suitable list. If anyone has another
suggestion please tell me.
I've installed Debian/Potato on an old Mac 7300/180 and:
1) I am having trouble setting the colour depth at 15 . Acording to
the Debian_Guide (in usr/doc) and according to numerous posts on several
usenet sites I should be able to do this using either XF86Setup,
xf86setup, xf86config. I cannot find these on my system. I've tried to
edit XF86Config but when i change the DefaultDepth to 15, Xserver
crashes.What am i doing wrong ?
2) I'm also having trouble configuring wvdial, I removed the #s and
inserted my user name, the ISP phone no and password.When I run wvdial
the modem gets initialized and I immediately get :"Configuration does
not specify a valid password". i seem to remember seing somewhere one
had to add something before the password but i've lost the reference.
Any suggestions ?
3) Even running a "small" window manager like ice or blackbox,
applications take forever to launch (mozilla & mahjongg for ex.)When i
tried SuSE with either kernel 2.2.18 or 2.4 everything seemed a lot
faster even with KDE running.Obviously my setup must be wrong.I'd
appreciate getting feedback from someone with a similar installation.
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