On Die, 2003-05-13 at 03:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > After some help I got from you guys I am now a happy camper .. runing > Woody on my Beige M/T G3-400, 512Mb Ram, but I noticed that the mouse > movement is not smooth and applicaton load operations are sluggish. Is > there a way I can optimize this e.g. better drivers for my graphics board
That's unlikely to make much difference. > (which has 6Mb Vram), turning off some background services. That might help if RAM is the bottleneck. > And finally are there any applications on linux that will take advantage of > the > altivec if I decided to go out and upgrade my g3 to g4 -zif. There are some, in particular video players, but there will hopefully be more in the future. :) -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer