[ale] X running excruciatingly slow

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Mon May 17 11:55:21 EDT 2004


John Wells wrote:
> Sergio Chaves said:
> 
>>Is it a celeron machine?
>>I read somewhere that X on celeron machines
>>need at least 512 Megs RAM with 800+ being
>>optimum.
>>
>>my 2 cents
>>
> 
> 
> No, it's a AMD Athlon 2200+ XP with 512 mb ram on a Gigabyte GA-7VRX mb
> that's run Linux just fine for the past two years.  It ran the current
> distro just fine as well up until last week, when I jerked a couple of
> cards out and removed and moved the drive (was slaved to another drive) to
> master.

Are you sure you have the drive jumpers set properly since you moved it?

> 
> I suppose the removal of the other cards could have caused an interrupt
> problem?
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