[ale] X running excruciatingly slow

[Calvin Harrigan]

On Monday 17 May 2004 11:03 am, John Wells wrote:
> Geoffrey said:
> > Are you sure you have the drive jumpers set properly since you moved it?
>
> Very positive.  I've checked it over and over, just to make sure.
>
> The drive seems very responsive from a virtual terminal.  It's only when I
> fire up X that my problems begin.
>
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I didn't get the start of this thread, but what do you mean exactly by slow?
Do applications take a long time to load?  Is redrawing of the actual screen 
taking forever?  I've had problems with X in the past where if the /etc/hosts 
file isn't setup up properly, application loading slow waaaaaay down.  I 
think X or the window manager was trying to resolve something and it had to 
wait for the initial name resolution to time out.  Make sure on the same line 
with localhost in the /etc/hosts file you have the proper name of the 
machine.  Just a thought....


Calvin...