Re: Slow performance in X Windows
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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