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. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
