I just put together a machine with a 3GHz Athlon, 1Gb of 400MHz DDR-RAM and a 64 Mb dual-head ATI Radeon 7500 PCI. It's running a Debian 2.6.6-k7 kernel. The system works fine and seems pretty performant, but every now and then it does weird things.
For instance, when I enter an OpenOffice.org document with the mouse, or when I open various images in rapid succession in firefox as tabs, then the mouse jerks and xmms or ogg123 cuts out. It all peaks when I fullsize a 2000x1700 pixel image across the Xinerama screens. The system basically becomes unresponsive for a couple of seconds. I have 1.2 GHz Athlons with 256Mb that handle this just fine. There is nothing logged to kern.log or any other log, so I assume ths system is healthy. So my question is where this is coming from. I am not even sure where to start looking. Would someone here be able to offer some advice? Here are the relevant lspci entries: 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge 0000:00:0b.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV200 QW [Radeon 7500] 0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge 0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) The system is using APIC, the local APIC is enabled, IO-APIC works too. Where to look? Thanks, -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] invalid/expired pgp subkeys? use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver! spamtraps: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "solange man nicht die moral des christentums als kapitalverbrechen am leben empfindet, haben dessen verteidiger gutes spiel." - friedrich nietzsche
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