Subject: Re: Accelerated X - and my first expereinces with Linux....
From: mg (mkdk@ne.mediaone.net)
Date: Sun Sep 05 1999 - 22:38:40 MDT
3rd request...
I am a novice to Linux and have purchased the yellowdoglinux 1.1 CD's. This
installed easily after formatting an external drive dedicated to linux. I am
having difficulty configuring to a cable modem (Mediaone rr). Can anyone
help with the configuration? Setting up enlightment,gnome etc was no
problem, unlike LinuxPPC, but I'm having difficulty with the networking
configuration via cable modem.
Also can someone provide a succint solution for applying the security
updates> That is how do I compile them, wrapped into the new rpm's?
Thanks in advance,
Mark
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>From: "something" <macuser666@home.com>
>To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
>Subject: Re: Accelerated X - and my first expereinces with Linux....
>Date: Sun, Sep 5, 1999, 10:23 PM
>
> I have a simular complaint. YellowDogLinux Champion 1.1 is the *first* Linux
> that has been fully usably that I've ever used and installed myself. I have
> tried a total of four distributions including YellowDog on both my PC and
> Mac, and this is the first to boot into the GUI that was at least
> customized. The screen fit nicely, unlike Redhat and it connected to the net
> unlike Caldera (due to the lack of a needed 3Com ethernet driver, as I use a
> cable modem). However, now that I've had time to toy with it - I have a few
> gripes. First off, there seems to be no acceration. And while most
> applications launch really really fast, the GUI seems to react slowly to a
> lot of tasks that the Mac O.S. is super quick with. Such as when I move the
> pointer up on the GNOME paw start-button looking thing, the highlight that
> follows usually trails behind quite a bit - and refreshing on the screen is
> horribly slow. The GUI seems fairly stable, and although Linux itself hasn't
> yet crashed on me often I am kicked out of GNOMe and into the command line.
> One thing that bugs is that sometimes (very very often in the case of the
> MP3 player and Netscape) a application will lockup and I don't know the
> keyboard combination to quite it, and I will wait until I'm asked of I wish
> to close it. Also, last but certainly not least (and I think this is a Gnome
> thing, I don't remember XFree86 or KDE on the PC doing this) if I move the
> cursor to any edge of the screen I'm moved to another virtual desktop (a
> feature I like, but I'd rather select it on my own accord on the taskbar
> then be sent there by the posstion of my mouse), and often I'm merely trying
> to scroll down on a webpage on Netscape and I'm thrown into another desktop.
> As a newbie, I can't currently recommend Linux to anyone wanting a
> replacement for Windows on the grounds that the GUIs don't seem to be that
> well integerated and regardless of the distribution I am often tossed out of
> it into the command-line. It is, as a whole, increadibly stable and fast.
> Even though scrolling on Netscape was a huge pain as I had to wait for the
> screen to refresh, it loaded websites like lightening and rendered them
> considerably faster then Mac O.S. I'm running on a rev. B iMac with 96 megs
> RAM, with my 4 gig HD partitioned into two 2 gig HDs. I have a total of 256
> megs swap and plenty of free disk space for apps left. And this reminds
> me...could someone run a list of LinuxPPC/YellowDog compatible Linux apps
> somewhere in the same way that FreeBSD does or even Be O.S.? Thanx!
>
> ~Christopher
>
> P.S. What is it about Netscape on Linux (I've noticed this on all
> distributions on many different machines running Linux that I've used) that
> it takes forever to launch while other larger apps, like GIMP, launches
> amazingly fast and often after a previous crash it seems to be locked up
> from the start, with only the stop button showing and everything else grayed
> out...thank god for memory protection, for the rest of the GUI is responsive
> and the crashing of Netscape doesn't bother anything else, for when this
> happens on my Windows 95 machine often it will take the O.S. down with it.
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I am running the YDL CS1.1 distribution on a new PowerBook G3 (Bronze
>> Keyboard). Video is the ATI Rage LT Pro with 8 MB SDRAM. On boot, only 3
>> MB is detected and there is no acceleration. Not all that surprising
>> given that the documentation that accompanied the distribution stated
>> that an XFree86 based ATI frame buffer driver was not yet available.
>> However, I was curious as to whether this is still the case. I have
>> tried newsgroups and FAQs and have found discussions involving
>> everything from patches and kernel arguments to startx options and
>> sacrafical rites that are supposed to offer accelerated X. Well, maybe
>> not that extreme, but pretty close. Most of it seems highly
>> inconsistent, probably due to lack of context such as which PowerBook,
>> XFree vs Xpmac, which distribution, etc.
>>
>> Could anyone supply either an explanation or links to information that
>> coherently cover the status of accelerated X for the new PowerBooks
>> using XFree86 ala YDL CS1.1? If so, it would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Jim Cole
>>
>
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