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I'm using Salix in console framebuffer mode now on my Thinkpad 600E; just clex, links2, gpm, etc. Should be fast, right?

Wrong. Links2 renders slower than molasses creeping up a hill, and the gpm cursor lags whenever the CPU or hard drive is being used.

I don't get it. Five years ago this computer would have been usable with Linux, now it wallows like a pig on Valium. What happened while I was sleeping?

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Sounds like a problem with your graphics/framebuffer driver. At least it is not normal behaviour.

Maybe. OTOH I experience the same framebuffer sluggishness on a Mac G3.

The thinkpad is using the Neomagic framebuffer I think, maybe I should switch to vesafb there?

Edit: not that it really matters; I'd like to get X working on both the Thinkpad and the Mac, but the sluggishness is truly ridiuclous - especially on the Mac, where disk I/O makes the screen lag and sound stutter.