Hi, I posted this yesterday but recieved no responses, probably because of the pretty ambiguous subject line :-/ .
I'm currently running Debian Linux Sarge on an old beige Powermac G3, 266Mhz. Up till now I have run the machine without X without problems, but due to problems with my Wintel laptop and encrouching college deadlines I have decided to try to install X windows in order to use openoffice or abiword. So far I have been successful, and despite the slightly anoxreic specs of the machine GNOME and XFCE seem to run reasonably well. However, X seems to suffer from occasional problems in rendering the screen. Every now and again, X will render a bitmap or a window with a whole bunch of noise in it. You can "clear" the noise away by running a window slowly over the affected area, but it usually returns. Is this a common problem? I am on a tight budget so if there is a software solution to this, other than not using X, then I would much appreciate it. If there is not and it is a specification issue, then what requires upgrading: VRAM (or the graphics card) or the RAM? I don't wish to spend money only to find it makes little noticeable improvement - as Linux now gets more use here than the archaic OS 9. Kernel: 2.6.8 Memory: 92.1MB Video: 2Meg, ATI Rage Pro. I do not use the framebuffer. Monitor: M1212 Color display Boot system: BootX on MacOS9 startup. I've included by XF86Config file incase it is of any use. Thanks, David Deans -- http://www.livejournal.com/users/snooo http://louderthanwar.blogspot.com
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