Re: [LIH] Slow and Jerky Mouse/ Video on Fedora Core 13

"Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.india.help
Organization Kandalaya
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Friday 17 Sep 2010, Ajay Pal Singh Atwal wrote:
> On an Acer make laptop (Aspire 5738) with the following configuration
> 1. CPU Intel Core 2 Duo T6600
> 2. GPU: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics
> Controller (rev 07) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0205
> 3. Memory: 4GB
> 4. Distribution: Fedora Core 13 with all updates applied
> 5. Kernel: 2.6.34.6-54.fc13.i686
> 
> After using the system for sometime the mouse response becomes jerky
> and slow. Though switching to console (by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2 etc),
> the system is usable from command line.
> When the system is running slow, on viewing output of "top", there
> are two "kslowd" processes that are accumulating CPU time (around
> 15% to 20%)
> 
> On checking various mailing lists the following seems to be the
> problem:
> http://us.generation-nt.com/answer/why-kslowd-accumulating-so-much-c
> pu-time-help-198841741.html
> 
> Can someone suggests a workaround to this problem. We tried using
> VESA inplace of intel for xorg.conf but then the screen starts
> flickering and display in general is unusable.

Looks like it should be fixed in the next kernel upgrade.  In the 
meantime, if VESA doesn't work, see if the FBDEV X server works for you.

Regards,

-- Raj
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