On 7/28/07, Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 02:54:30PM -0600, Bob Lounsbury wrote: > > I know this has been discussed in the past and I've been one to bring > > it up, since I'm using a 600Mhz iBook running Ubuntu and OSX. > > > > Just for the information, I've tried various flavors of Linux and > > Debian seemed faster but I always had to manually configure my Xorg > > file. Ubuntu never asked any questions and the screen display was just > > fine. Then running top I noticed that Xorg jumped to 80 or 90 percent > > of the CPU load when typing in 1.5.0 on Ubuntu. So, I went into the > > Xorg file and noticed that the default color depth was 24 and it > > should be a maximum of 16. Changing this "DRAMATICALLY!!!!" changed > > the speed of standard typing in a new document without figures or > > notes or anything. So much so that there is absolutely no "slowness" > > So my question is - Why does LyX 1.5.0 cause Xorg to use so much CPU > > or how this could be decreased? Is this increase just because of Qt > > Does this have to do with enabling dri (direct rendering > interface? I remember that required 16 bits. > > Do Google Earth, Celestia, Stellarium also run dramatically > faster? > > - Martin
As stated in my first post I'm using an iBook hence it is ppc and Google Earth etc. are not available for ppc.
