X problem(may be)

[Michael Velez]

> 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                                
>                
> <snip>
> bogomips        : 1957.88                     
> 
> 
> `cat /proc/meminfo`
> --------------------
> MemTotal:       645808 kB                               
>                    
> MemFree:        416152 kB                               
>                         
> <snip>
> 
> 	Thanks
> 	---Tapas
> 

When I had problems with X, somebody suggested I look in the log file.

Have you looked at the X log file to see if there are any errors (any line
with EE)?  You may have to update something in the X config file.

On my system (RHEL 4), the two files you need are found in:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf
/var/log/Xorg.0.log

FC3 may have different names.  I think it uses XFree, I'm not sure.

Michael