[ale] X running excruciatingly slow

[Michael D. Hirsch]

Could be interrupt problems.  If your mouse is having a conflict, it could 
slow things down.

I had a similar problem a little while ago when my USB scanner made my mouse 
really flakey like you describe.  It turns out that somehow the scanner was 
interfering with my wireless mouse.  The solution was to move the mouse 
receiver away from the USB cable.

Michael

On Thursday 13 May 2004 07:43 am, John Wells wrote:
> Guys,
>
> In the midst of a number of hardware changes I've been making at home, I
> took a 40 gb drive that had been running as the slave on the primary ide
> slot and switched it to master, and then dropped another 20gb drive in as
> slave.
>
> Before the switch, the 40gb drive had been running as slave to a 120gb
> drive that I've moved to a different machine.
>
> The 40gb has a Red Hat 8 install that ran perfectly fine two days ago, but
> after the switch, X has become painfully slow, to the point that if I
> don't drop to a virtual terminal right after gdm fires up, I am pretty
> much unable to do anything.  The mouse pointer might move once every
> thirty seconds or so, so it's as if it's running in super-duper slow mode.
>  If I repeatedly tap ctl+alt+F(n) I can eventually get to a virtual
> terminal, and then everything seems as fast as ever, no delay from key
> strokes at all.
>
> The gfx card is a geforce 2 with the proprietary NVIDIA drivers installed.
>
> I'm at a loss on how to go about diagnosing this.  Has anyone seen similar
> behavior in the past or do you have suggestions regarding what I should
> examine?
>
> Thanks for the help, as always!
>
> John
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