Ron,
On 2010-09-27 18:32, Ron Leach wrote:
Philip Rhoades wrote:
> Guys,
>
>
> On 2010-09-22 17:58, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 14:29 +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>>> People,
>>>
>>>
>>> I find it boots OK with qemu and from a USB stick and, in fact,
>>> seems to
>>> install OK to a HD but when running the resulting install, I find it is
>>> deadly slow and unusable (I am using F13 on the same machine - a
>>> Gateway
>>> LT30 netbook - with no problems).
>>
>> Like OtherAdam, I can't reproduce; I did all that validation testing
>> from an installed copy of the live image (I installed it to a USB stick,
>> in fact, on a Dell Inspiron 6400, so it's not exactly a fast
>> environment, but it ran fine).
>
>
> Using top I found it is Xorg - taking up nearly 100% of CPU time . .
>
Phil, I realise you've already entered a bug for this, but I noticed
that your machine
http://support.gateway.com/s/notebook/2009/gateway/lt/lt30/LT30sp2.shtml
uses the Intel GMA500 chipset, with a quite modern screen geometry of
1366 x 768. So?
It is defaulting to 1024x768 and I can't change it to something else eg
800x600 or 640x480 . .
A recent post on the laptop list from another user with a GMA500
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/laptop/2010-September/000926.html
is reporting 'slow performance' with F13 as well, suspected due to the
drivers.
I wonder whether F14 is running ok on other GMA500 machines, or whether
the chipset is causing problems?
I have been using it with F13 for some time with no problems except for
it being a little slower than other distros but NOT with the current
slowness problem . .
Regards,
Phil.
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E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au