Re: Odd slow-down issue

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:35:53 -0500 (CDT)
"Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost> wrote:

> I am having similar issues with 4.99.55 amd64
> 
> My mouse moves fine in the window manager, but I can't type and I/O 
> appears to be hanging for few seconds here and there. I upgraded frm 
> 4.0_RC2 to 4.99.55 recently and I don't recall slow downs happenening 
> often before. Now it is pretty frequent. I didn't think much of it
> until it happened more after I read your email. When it happens I
> can't troubleshoot since I can't type...
> 
Jared's fix -- an xorg option for Intel chips -- solved my problem.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb