Hi,

The other thing that will kill you is many programs are unhappy with
anything less than 16bit color.  They claim they will work, but, they
often aren't heavily used/tested and in the end don't.

When you stop and think about it, given how cheap 24bit color cards
are, this isn't a big suprise.  When I try to run firefox across the
network to my Powerbook 540c it segfaults.  Other programs that want a
lot of color will kill the X server instead.

At work we use a lot of Suns, not so new ones at this point, which
almost as a rule came with 8 bit cards.  Moderen versions of
Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox frequently run badly and crash.

Did you try the 8bit color X server on your Quadra?  The colors are
funky but it does work on my PB540s.

cheers

bruce

On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 09:30:41PM -0400, Joshua Coombs wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Toad" <toad@arsystel.com>
> To: <port-mac68k@NetBSD.org>
> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 10:07 AM
> Subject: KDE or GNOME on a Quadra @ 25MHZ?
> 
> 
> >Hi all!!
> >
> >I'm running NetBSD 1.6.2 on my Quadra 610, 700MB Hard Disk, 23MB 
> >RAM. It
> >works really fine!!
> <snip>
> >Hmmm... how runs KDE or GNOME on mac68k machines? What about 
> >speed? :-S
> 
> RAM is going to be your primary limiting factor.  I ran on a 
> 386dx-40 with 64mb ram, once you got past waiting for stuff to chuff 
> into ram, it was usable.  Eyecandy is not really something you want 
> to try, and KDE/GNOME do absolutely terrible at low resoultion/color 
> depths.
> 
> Personally I'd like to see effort made to get GPE or Opie going on 
> mac68k, but as I'm not working twoards it myself, I can't do any 
> complaining if it doesn't happen. : )
> 
> Joshua Coombs
> 
> 

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