[ale] X running excruciatingly slow

[Geoffrey]

John Wells wrote:
> Michael D. Hirsch said:
> 
>>Could be interrupt problems.  If your mouse is having a conflict, it could
>>slow things down.
> 
> 
> How would I identify this?  I am still at a loss on this one.  I've
> switched mice and keyboards, but same affect.  I booted up to a Win XP
> drive in same machine, same mouse and keyboard, and everything worked
> perfectly fine, so it's got to be something on the linux side.  I also
> upgraded the entire system, X included, to the latest versions from
> freshrpms.net...still no luck.

If you're having interrupt issues, I expect to see some logging info, 
probably in /var/log/messages.

I'd compare the interrupts between linux and XP.  /proc/intterrupts will 
show you active interrupts and also identify shared interrupts.

I assume XP has some facility for the same as did win9?, but I've not 
had the need to research it on that virus.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
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