Hi John I think Seth is right, probably the easiest solution to your colour problem will be to get a new video-card. I've had much succes using an old Tseng ET4000-based card in my slightly archaic 486/100. Gives me up to 1024x768 and plenty colors, with no troubles whatsoever. These cards are available very cheap or free, and very easy to configure (I'm a newbie too...), as they used to be very common. Good Luck Vitux
Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: Seth R Arnold [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sendt: 26. august 1999 06:39 > Til: John Gay; debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: recipient list not shown > Emne: Re: E! Enlightenment for newbie? > > (I reformatted this to use 76 chars.. if you are in an xterm, I suggest > you > check to make sure it is 80 columns wide -- if using netscape or similar, > please make the window smaller. :) > > On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 05:18:39AM +0100, John Gay wrote: > > E's website, but I take anything with a grain of salt. I'm interested in > > trying E, and was just looking for any experiences, good and bad with E. > I > > was also hoping this would provide a simpler GUI for my ten year old > > I have never gotten E to work -- but that was with other distributions, I > haven't tried debian's E yet. I think it would work much nicer under > debian > than the others, else it would never make it into stable. :) > > As for ease of use .. it doesn't seem nearly as easy as kwm under kde. > *That* is pretty simple, as well as similar enough to windows so that your > doughter will only feel revolted using windows, not completely clueless. > :) > > However, kids being what they are these days, I do imagine E will give her > no troubles, and she will probably soon be teaching you how to use it more > efficiently. :) > > > these yet. How would you rate E in relation to these? 7: At the moment, > > my daughter's PC is limited to 8 bit colour. Can E be configured to > reduce > > any problems this causes? Right now, with fvwm95, if I open one app with > > lots of colours, than another one, the second complains there are not > > enough colours left and the screen keep switching different colours as > the > > two app's borrow from each other. Is there some way to make the apps use > > the same colours? > > As for the color-depth problem... the window manager does not have any say > in what colors applications can use. E will probably make the situation > WORSE since to look good it requires many colors -- and you haven't athat > many to go around. If it runs high resolution, you can drop the resolution > down to get more colors, or (if your card just won't do it..) get a new > video card. Checking your local .forsale newsgroup might find someone who > wants to part with their video card to upgrade.. If her machine has an AGP > slot, it wouldn't be too hard to find a nicer new video card for cheap -- > if > it is PCI, used might be the way to go.. and if it is ISA-only system, > maybe > someone out there can help.. :) > > If the machine is a bit on the slow side, E might not be such a good idea > either -- I have heard it takes many CPU cycles to remain happy. > > If this is the case, you may want to check out blackbox. (I think it is > blackbox.fwiw.com -- themes.org has a section devoted to it..) blackbox > runs > quick, very little resources are needed, and it is still intuitive. You do > give up icons, but .. not that big a loss if the video card doesn't have > enough memory for higher resolutions. > > HTH :) > > -- > Seth Arnold | ICQ 3172483 | http://cswww.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ > I prosecute unsolicited bulk emails, using the RealTime BlackHole > List. You should too. Ask me how, or visit http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null