I have insalled linux as my Primary and only OS on a Gateway laptop. It has 1GB of ram a intel Centrino Duo processor (if more specs are needed let me know). When i run gnome terminal or any terminal for that matter, my cpu goes streight to 100% and stays there. So basicly i cant run terminal. does anyone know why this is happening and is there a fix? Thanks in advance!!
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Try running ‘xterm’ (Alt+F2: xterm) to see if the same thing happens.
Good luck.
my gti-02 wrote:
> I have insalled linux as my Primary and only OS on a Gateway laptop. It
> has 1GB of ram a intel Centrino Duo processor (if more specs are needed
> let me know). When i run gnome terminal or any terminal for that
> matter, my cpu goes streight to 100% and stays there. So basicly i cant
> run terminal. does anyone know why this is happening and is there a
> fix? Thanks in advance!!
>
>
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i will try that when i get home.
My corp IT guy who is very familiar with openSUSE was saying to update my video drivers, because in Linux’s “task manager” it shows X11 making my CPU go to 100%. I understand that X11 is what controls all the graphics or something like that?
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If you have the same symptom using ‘xterm’, considering what you just
posted, try logging in to the console directly. To do this, Ctrl+Alt+F2
(which will take you to a console-based login screen) and then enter
your username and password (press [Enter] after each). If you get
logged in directly then it’s something Gnome/X/video-related most-likely
but if you have the same thing there perhaps a login script is broken.
Good luck.
my gti-02 wrote:
> i will try that when i get home.
>
> My corp IT guy who is very familiar with openSUSE was saying to update
> my video drivers, because in Linux’s “task manager” it shows X11 making
> my CPU go to 100%. I understand that X11 is what controls all the
> graphics or something like that?
>
>
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actuallly xterm works perfect. why would gterm not wokr correctly? doesnt make sense to me. any ideas?
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Well, they are different applications. It is possible that
gnome-terminal is doing more when loading (likely… it never loads as
fast as ‘xterm’ in my tests). It uses Gnome libraries (assumed) whereas
‘xterm’ just uses X stuff (which Gnome also uses). It’s possible some
scripts that run when opening a terminal look for gnome-terminal and do
special things in those cases, though that’s not really that likely in
my opinion.
Can you reproduce it on any other machines? I presume you are running
Gnome (vs. KDE) full time. All patched up to date?
Good luck.
my gti-02 wrote:
> actuallly xterm works perfect. why would gterm not wokr correctly?
> doesnt make sense to me. any ideas?
>
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it will be hard to try it on another machine. dont really have another machine to test it on, unless i make a Virtual Machine. If i have time to test it i will try and let you know the results.
thanks for all the help!