X problem(may be)

[Bob McClure Jr]

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?

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.

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
robertmcclure at earthlink.net  http://www.bobcatos.com
Peace at any price is inflationary.