X problem(may be)

[Tapas Ranjan]

On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Bob McClure Jr wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 08:28:29PM +0900, Tapas Ranjan wrote:
> > Hi :
> >    I installed FC3 on a desktop, which has a bit old
> > CPU confugurations and when I open a terminal, 
> > it acts so slow that only you can see the border of the terminal and the 
> > username, but can't see any cursor. I can't see what I type, just the 
> > wallpaper. It's very very very slow, I can't move anything and many times
> > it just freezes and can't even logout. If I switch to single user mode
> > without "X" then everything works fine and fast enough.
> > 	First I thought it might be a memory problem, since I 
> > had 128 MB RAM, then I added another 512 MB, but no change. Second
> > I thought it might be a disk problem, since I had only 4GB for the
> > linux partition, where as another 30GB for windows (which works fine),
> > and then I added complete new hard-disk of 80GB and installed 
> > the linux again, but still no change. Now I am clueless, what should
> > I do ? Since I spent quite a few on this, I want help of you guys
> > to guide if I can solve this problem.
> > 
> > Here is the output of "/proc/cpuinfo" and "/proc/meminfo"
> > 
> > `cat /proc/cpuinfo`
> > --------------------
> > processor       : 0                                               
> > vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD                                            
> > cpu family      : 6                                                      
> > model           : 4                                                      
> > model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor                              
> > stepping        : 2                                                     
> > cpu MHz         : 1000.574                                               
> > cache size      : 256 KB                                               
> > fdiv_bug        : no                                                     
> > hlt_bug         : no                                                     
> > f00f_bug        : no                                                    
> > coma_bug        : no                                                    
> > fpu             : yes                                                    
> > fpu_exception   : yes                                                   
> > cpuid level     : 1                                                   
> > wp              : yes                                                     
> > flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov pat
> > mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow                                   
> > bogomips        : 1957.88                     
> > 
> > 
> > `cat /proc/meminfo`
> > --------------------
> > MemTotal:       645808 kB                                                  
> > MemFree:        416152 kB                                                       
> > Buffers:         37036 kB                                                     
> > Cached:         159668 kB                                                       
> > SwapCached:          0 kB                                              
> > Active:          83116 kB                                                
> > Inactive:       114612 kB                                                
> > HighTotal:           0 kB                                                
> > HighFree:            0 kB                                                
> > LowTotal:       645808 kB                                                
> > LowFree:        416152 kB                                                
> > SwapTotal:     1116508 kB                                                
> > SwapFree:      1116508 kB                                               
> > Dirty:              64 kB                                             
> > Writeback:           0 kB                                                
> > Mapped:           3344 kB                                               
> > Slab:            24060 kB                                               
> > Committed_AS:    11004 kB                                                
> > PageTables:        140 kB                                               
> > VmallocTotal:  3481592 kB                                               
> > VmallocUsed:      4048 kB                                                  
> > VmallocChunk:  3477332 kB                                               
> > HugePages_Total:     0                                                   
> > HugePages_Free:      0                                                
> > Hugepagesize:     4096 kB     
> > 
> > 
> > 	Thanks
> > 	---Tapas
> 
> Looks like you have plenty of horsepower.  What window manager are you
> using?
>

Thanks Bob :

I have installed gnome, KDE and xfce. I tried gnome first with the default 
user and also tried xfce, but no change. I dont understand what do you 
mean by " plenty of horsepower" ?


> You might try creating a new user (who thus has no pre-existing X or
> WM configuration) and see how X behaves with that user.  If all is
> well, you may need to blow away some of your existing WM
> configuration, e.g. ~/.gnome for the GNOME wm.
> 
     Did the above but no change for the new user. It behaves the same 
way. Please somebody give some more clue...!!!

Tapas