Hi Ronald, On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 21:31:35 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> I have a reasonably fresh (<1 month old) install of Debian. Today, I > became root and did the following: > > apt-get install xbmc You are not saying which release you are using so I guess you are running the latest stable release, which will most likely be wheezy: https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/ It was released in may 2013. There obviously was not enough time to get at least 12.0 into the release, given that wheezy was frozen on June 30th in 2012: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/06/msg00009.html The current development release has XBMC 13.2 which will also be in the upcoming jessie release of the Debian distribution. If you want to run newer software on a Debian system based on stable (aka the released version), you have to look at backports: http://backports.debian.org/ Debian stable is often quite a bit behind in terms of current software versions. That's the price for being well tested when released. I regard that as an advantage given that one often can get the new stuff from backports if really needed. > It came up alright, but the mouse seemed to be sluggish. So I popped > over to the XBMC "System info" tab and had a look see... Maybe your X11 driver does not use the hardware acceleration of your video adapter?! > The second thing I noticed probably explains why the mouse seemed a tad > sluggish... Both cores on my dual core system were pegged at 94-95% > utilization. > > Again I ask... What's up with that? > > Seems rather seriously broken to me. So that does top show about the offending process while your load is that high? > My system: > > AMD A4-6300 APU ASUS A78M-A motherboard ASUS VH238H (1080p) monitor. I have to admit that I don't know the status of AMD A4 support in Debian. Googling gave this as a hint that this may be the problem: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=757604 Greetings, Torsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/ma4m4f$hq8$1...@ger.gmane.org