On 6/11/07, Finn Thain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Brian Morris wrote: > On 6/5/07, Brad Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
> there is some other bottleneck on 630 which causes for instance very > slow some Xapps which do work such as pdf viewers (looks like ~20% the > speed of macos which seems unreasonable especially considering other > things that work OK, although better than totally broken it is not > exactly useable). Unreasonable? Maybe... PDF viewers have almost certainly bloated since early Acrobat as the format grew. But in fairness, unless these programs are functionally equivalent, the comparison is a bit meaningless. You may be able to find a more basic pdf viewer? (I'd give gv a shot if you haven't already. I can't say I've tried it under etch myself...).
I am not running etch I am running Sid. I can't believe it myself, but it is actually a good idea someone does. Perhaps I need to put that in any and all report I make, because it is what it is. etch-m68k is really a snapshot of testing, that was a little behind release. I am a little worried about running unstable because there is no testing for falling back support. at first i tried to combine it was etch with sid then sid with etch then just sid. maybe i was in a hurry or some other reason. but may be that etch-m68k really needs some updates to be useable. anyway even in ppc etch I have had some problems with gv and xpdf -- both of which i tried on 68k/sid, where they have worse problems. on ppc i also use vindaloo (that is gnustep viewpdf). anyway like I said it is no useable really. maybe there is tweak to make either file or reader look at earlier pdf versions (aka acroreader was 3,4,5 adding features). i tried the pdf2text converter it is not the best. or i could copy pdf files to my old powerbook 540 which is where i do most of my electronic reading and have some debian manuals there anyway already for references since it sits next to quadras and goes in to them w/SSH, makes a fair terminal at that. ________________ despite i said "maybe, eventually" to look at video DAFB I find myself looking at it now, at least study the situation. my 605 will not start X as it is without some extra VRAM. this should probably not be, but is the current state of it. Reason: I can get macos in 640x480 at 67 or 60 hz or 800x600 at 56hz but in any of those three cases even with setting kernel param vmode appropriately fbi tells me i am in 73 or 75 hz mode and will not change it but X tells me it needs to change (like X know I am really in what i set from macos but the information is not passed correctly). I think if i put in the xtra vram i should be able to go X in [EMAIL PROTECTED] (It boots in 4bit now, but X won't go with that). or I could try and modify some source to set the hz correctly... does my description make sense to you all. or do I need to cut and paste the error texts... Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
