Themes Manager Slows Down HD Install/Bug?

**bongski55** · 06-08-2003, 05:21 AM

I wonder if this is a bug.
I tried using the themes manager to change themes but after applying a theme(any theme i tried all four available) knoppix became cranky,very very slow in response to mouse clicks and almost unusable.

I had to reinstall the whole thing four times!
To check out, I tried it on a CD boot but themes manager worked fine on a cd based.

Perhaps this is not very important but I need to know if something is wrong with my install as it seems I am only the one with this problem.

thanks!

**bongski55** · 06-09-2003, 12:31 PM

I booted from cd and tried changing the themes before going into another knx-hdinstall just to test my problem.

It still messes up my knoppix installation!

Is anybody aware of this or perhaps it is my sis 620 graphics chip?

**Stephen** · 06-09-2003, 05:51 PM

I have never seen that my themes work fine. It is probably graphics related the card may not be powerful enough to redraw the screen as fast as needed.

**bongski55** · 06-10-2003, 06:22 AM

If it is hardware related,how come it is working fine in the live cd version?

**Stephen** · 06-10-2003, 07:12 AM

Originally Posted by bongski55

If it is hardware related,how come it is working fine in the live cd version?

That's a good question and one I really don't have an answer too. Have you changed the default resolution from 16 bit to 24 bit on the install that would slow down the system other than that I think I'm out of ideas it seems to be graphics related might even be the X server and your on a slow connection IIRC so updating that is out of the question.

**bongski55** · 06-10-2003, 07:39 AM

the only setting I made at the boot prompt on the live cd was fb800x600. Could it be this setting-i.e. frame buffer mode?I understand that this is also reflected on the hd install(is it?) .How do I change framebuffer on the hd install?

**Stephen** · 06-10-2003, 08:23 AM

Originally Posted by bongski55

the only setting I made at the boot prompt on the live cd was fb800x600. Could it be this setting-i.e. frame buffer mode?I understand that this is also reflected on the hd install(is it?) .How do I change framebuffer on the hd install?

You can check if it is in use in the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file in the line Option "UseFBDev" if there is no # at the start of the line then it is in use. If you needed the fb cheat code to run knoppix from the CD then you will still need it now.