have you tried using a light-weight WM such as Fluxbox, BlackBoc, IceWM, ect?
I use fluxbox on my 8500, with its built-in video, and it seems to work pretty well. (passing the argument: video=ofonly) and running X @ 1024x768x15 -dylan on 03.5.27 11:10 PM, Mich Lanners at [EMAIL PROTECTED] was reported to have writen: > 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. " > -- "The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." -Albert Einstein
