On 27 May, this message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What you can try to make it appear faster is reduce color depth. That reduces the amount of data to shuffle around. Cheers Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. "
