Am 13. Nov, 2001 schwätzte Michael J. Astrauskas so:

> WARNING: current display depth is 24. For better performance
> a depth of 16 bpp is recommended!

I've seen posts saying this makes a difference. You can always run a second
X session of VT8, but that uses more memory.

> I am running Debian SID with Kernel 2.2.19.

Sid and 2.2? I'd say move up to a 2.4 kernel.

ciao,

der.hans
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