hi folks, a few days ago I semi-accidentally installed xorg on my laptop, a PII-300 with 192 megs of ram. (If I recall correctly, openoffice.org2 pulled in some dependencies and then I installed the rest of the xorg packages to give me a more fully functioning system).
Everything works fine, except that xorg seems to render at an absolute snail's pace. CPU usage gets up to about 80% while it redraws the screen several times over a period of maybe 10-15 seconds, making normal text-entry work very difficult. Admittedly, I'm doing much of this in openoffice 2, which is a heavy, slow, clunky program -- but I didn't have these problems on earlier versions of OOo, and I notice that even xterms take much longer to appear on the screen than they used to (sometimes on the order of 10-15 seconds, which is a LOOOONG time hwen you just want to check how much pattery power you have left at the command line). I'm wondering whether other people have experienced similar problems, whether there are ways to diagnose and cure the issues leading to this excessive CPU use, and also whether it's feasible to switch back to xfree86-4.3 -- is there e.g. a suggested downgrade path? anyway it'd be great to have my computer working more like... a computer! again. thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]