Nick Lidakis <nlida...@verizon.net>: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 02:13:08AM +0200, Thomas Amm wrote: > > Am 24.06.2010 20:06, schrieb Nick Lidakis: > > > > > > I figured, these days, getting to a 2d desktop with a 2 year old > > > video card would not cause a machine to lock hard. Although,I am > > > on unstable. You pays your money and you takes your chances... > > > > while avoiding cairo tured out to be the least of all evils. > > No 3d anything. startx from command line.
Tried fluxbox? I've been fighting with new distros and old machines lately. Lenny + fluxbox and Mint + fluxbox work really nicely in comparison to (eg.) ELive. This's on both desktop and laptops, P-IV 2.4 Ghz and Celeron 2 GHz. Find 'em on distrowatch.com -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/i547l1$m6...@speranza.aioe.org