On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 04:05, Jean-Michel Deleu wrote: > 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.
It's the right list, it has searchable archives though. ;) > 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 ? XFree86 3.x was very inconsistent about 15/16. If either doesn't work, try the other. > 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. Can't suggest much besides potato is ooold and you should upgrade to woody. That might also help for the other problems. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
