graphics w/ 2.6.26.3-29 kernel sluggish, 2.6.25.14-108 OK?

[Bastien Nocera]

On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 17:47 +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Sep 2008, Pekka Savola wrote:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462180
> 
> This appears to affect non-graphics as well, see the bug for more.
> 
> I noticed interesting thing on both 2.6.26 and 2.6.25 though.  If I 
> boot using "nosmp" option, bootup freezes at "Starting udev". 
> "acpi=off nosmp" works though, as works the default option.  This is a 
> a single CPU system.
> 
> Seems pretty strange. I wonder if this intentional?  There doesn't 
> seem to be any bug filed on this, the closest (inverse to this) was: 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=405361

The problem I'm currently seeing with the latest rawhide is that X will
only refresh the screen when there is keyboard or mouse activity.
Leaving "Ctrl" pressed allows for the UI to update.

Not sure if this is the same issue you're seeing...