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[sabbyman]

Guys

I have a serious problem with my computer. X really kills it. It uses some 300Mb of memory, and spikes to 100% everytime i do anything. Results, doing things on the computer is only but tolerable. Then i have to reboot every couple hours to use it.

I'm using the onboard intel card

[caf4926]

X is using 224MB with me. But all is lightening fast.
What's it like in kde3 or icewm?

[sabbyman]

Sorry neglected to mention I'm running GNOME, with NOOO desktop effects or anything. Its basically a plain desktop. I only have 768 MB of RAM on the system.

[caf4926]

Originally Posted by sabbyman

Sorry neglected to mention I'm running GNOME, with NOOO desktop effects or anything. Its basically a plain desktop. I only have 768 MB of RAM on the system.

Your sig says KDE4.2.3
Try a failsafe boot, which should drop your graphics and leave you with vesa, see how it behaves..

[sabbyman]

LOL, Really sorry about that. Its the pc at the office. I know i should have mentioned that.

In fails safe, Will i loose any functionality??

[caf4926]

Maybe, maybe even better. Just try it. It just adds a load of arguments to the boot. Nothing to concern yourself about.

[sabbyman]

Will try the reboot

[sabbyman]

Working Sweet. I wondered why normal mode had this problem. Plus, During the install i remember getting errors while probing for the video card.

X is now using 60MB. So much better THanks!!

[caf4926]

But it's the vesa graphics and you will not have 3D. Mind you, I hardly ever use 3D myself.
It's fine to use failsafe, but you can always try rolling back the graphics driver, if you think it was better at an earlier stage.
Just go to the version tab and select a earlier radio button in the nvidia driver packages.

[sabbyman]

actually, that driver never worked properly. even from the first install it had problems probing for the card. Lines and dashes appeared and I had to hard reboot and skip the setup. then log in as root and create my user there. Not too sure why