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
X is using 224MB with me. But all is lightening fast.
What’s it like in kde3 or icewm?
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…
LOL, Really sorry about that. Its the pc at the office.rotfl! I know i should have mentioned that.
In fails safe, Will i loose any functionality??
Maybe, maybe even better. Just try it. It just adds a load of arguments to the boot. Nothing to concern yourself about.
Will try the reboot
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!!
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.
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
Sorry I’m looking at that darn office spec again. You are on Intel here.
Umm/
Me uses Intel but I know some have real issues.
Mine is brilliant - sorry. It just is.
This is how mine shows in spec:
Vendor: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
Model: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 965GM 20080716 x86/MMX/SSE2
Driver: 1.4 Mesa 7.2
Is it possible to download the correct driver? Just wondering. I need to virtual windows have a VPN access. I have a ton of policies that i use in my vpn client and don’t want to manually keep changing the dial up settings.
Open a terminal go su and do:
lspci -v
In the output, post the graphics info, it’s probably at the start of the output.
I need this really from a normal boot.
I will do that when I get to the office. Just wondering. Most of the time, its you that is answering. lol
Not just me, more likely that experienced users will leave me to it, unless it seems help is needed. Saves clutter in the thread.
lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 03)
Subsystem: FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc Device 9031
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64]
Capabilities: [e4] Vendor Specific Information <?>
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
Kernel modules: intel-agp
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc Device 9031
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128]
Memory at ee000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 1
Kernel modules: intelfb
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc Device 9031
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
I/O ports at d800 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc Device 9031
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at d000 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc Device 9031
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at d400 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc Device 9031
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 9
Memory at ee080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
Kernel modules: ehci-hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 82) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff
Memory behind bridge: ec000000-edffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 30000000-300fffff
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt, intel-rng
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc Device 9031
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
I/O ports at f000 [size=16]
Memory at 30100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1]
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
Kernel modules: piix, ata_piix
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc Device 9031
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 3
I/O ports at 0500 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
Kernel modules: i2c-i801
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC’97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc Device 9031
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 3
I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
I/O ports at e400 [size=64]
Memory at ee081000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Memory at ee082000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH
Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0
01:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc Device 9061
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
I/O ports at c000 [size=256]
Memory at ed000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 30000000 [disabled] [size=64]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: 8139too
Kernel modules: 8139too, 8139cp
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Your graphics chip is different to mine, but is using the same kernel modules:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 03)
Subsystem: FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc Device 9031
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64]
Capabilities: [e4] Vendor Specific Information <?>
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
Kernel modules: intel-agp
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc Device 9031
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128]
Memory at ee000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 1
Kernel modules: intelfb[/size][/size]
You will not do much better than this.
In kde my info shows like this:
Vendor: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
Model: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 965GM 20080716 x86/MMX/SSE2
Driver: 1.4 Mesa 7.2
It’s possible to update Mesa - but I’m not sure I would. Have a read here:
Mesa Home Page[/size]
Thanks, I’ll leave it as it and just use fail safe
Have a read here: Graphics - Availability of Intel® Graphics drivers for Linux*
As I read following the link thru in various directions, you might get better performance using an earlier kernel, or has it always been poor?
Just a thought
haven’t upgraded the kernel yet. So yea, always poor.