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Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:33:50 +0200
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From: Sergey Kish <sergey.kish@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Aki's drawterm-fb, THX/THNX img
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Nope.

I run wmii. There is a problem on that particular hardware (GMA 500).
Pain for a three years. And now finally with reinvented driver it's
amazing fast. But X plays badly.

I'm sure I can't fix X.
Only wait.

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 5:23 PM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> x11 is not that big of an impact on a netbook. I suspect your real
> problem is some horrible X desktop a la Gnome.
>
> Get something like FLWM (very light weight) or Rio and run 9vx in that
> environment. I've done that and it's very fast.
>
> The drawterm-fb had issues and I don't recommend you spending a lot of
> time to try to find it.
>
> ron
>
>