Subject: Re: slow video
From: Ben Donley (bdonley@unchosen.com)
Date: Wed Mar 22 2000 - 09:10:49 MST
Mol does not compress the video that it sends to the Xserver. There are
other solutions to this problem. Unless you're using gigabit ethernet,
there's no way you're going to send that much information across the network
without serious problems.
If you want to send video across a network, you need some sort of compression
scheme. Try VNC.
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc
You can either run it inside MacOS, or you can use it instead of an X
server. I'm not sure if it will fix your colormap issues, though.
Luck,
- Ben
On Mar 22, 2000, Claus Atzenbeck wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Patrick Berge wrote:
>
> > Claus Atzenbeck wrote:
> >
> > > Mac-on-Linux (slow video)
> >
> > Yep it means your mol session is using less colors than X. As a result
> > colors need to be dithered in mol resulting in this slow mode. Just make
> > the color depth in /etc/molrc the same as you LinuxPPC X server. The slow
> > message will go away and you should see a performance improvement.
>
> Thanks for your answer. I've changed it to 32 and "slow video" does no
> longer appear on the window title.
>
> But I still have this speed, color, and keyboard problem by starting
> MoL on a remote Intel Linux box vis ssh:
>
> * MoL is far to slow to work on it (much, much slower than
> when it is started local on LinuxPPC)
> * Everything is yellow (like you watch MoL through a yellow glass)
> * The keyboard (Intel Linux box) is not mapped right
>
> Any suggestions? Thanks a lot!!
>
> Claus.
>
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