I'm currently running Elisa 0.3.2 on a PPC Mac Mini, at 640x480 resolution, and both navigating with the menus and playing video are rather slow and jerky. I've been having some problems with X (hence why 640x480 resolution), and I'm wondering if that's the cause of the jerkiness. I'm trying to fix those problems, but I don't want to put loads of effort into making X work at a better resolution if it won't solve the Elisa jerkiness. I appreciate this question will be difficult to answer, but is the jerky menu and video playback likely to be caused by:
1. some sort of X problem which will go away if I can get X to work at a decent resolution, like 1366x768 2. me using Elisa 0.3.2 when 0.3.3 is out (I'm not running it because there aren't any PPC packages that I can find and I haven't had time to compile my own) 3. a G4 Mac Mini not having enough CPU speed to run Elisa properly 4. the open source ATI driver not being good enough at driving the Radeon 9200 in the machine (not that I can do anything about that because there is no PPC closed-source driver, and I'd rather not run fglrx anyway :)) 5. something else I haven't thought of? If it's 1 or 2 then I'll work hard to fix the problems with the machine. If it's 3 or 4 then I need to be thinking about buying new hardware... sil -- New Year's Day -- everything is in blossom! I feel about average. -- Kobayashi Issa
