[PlanetCCRMA] Re: the Planet starts to land on Fedora 8

[Alexander Smith]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:31:51 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 21:47 +0000, Alexander Smith wrote:
>> On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:41:06 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
>> 
>> > On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 18:26 +0000, Alexander Smith wrote:
>> >> On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:44:38 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> > What do you see hogging the cpu if you start "top" in a terminal?
>> >> > Are you using binary drivers for your video card? (Nvidia or ATI)
>> >> Nothing is hogging the CPU or RAM according to top (and gkrellm).
>> >> The whole graphical system just seems to slow down to a complete
>> >> crawl, updating itself about once a second.
>> >> I'm using an intel chipset on a laptop, and using the xorg intel
>> >> driver.
>> > 
>> > Are you seeing any weird messages in the output of dmesg, or in
>> > /var/log/messages?
>>
>> In a word - no :( I had a look through dmesg and the xorg log but can't
>> find anything out of the ordinary.
> 
> And also /var/log/messages?

I couldn't see anything in messages. I've posted dmesg on pastebin, and 
highlighted some lines (in yellow) which might be something. I don't know 
if they shed any light. See the file here: http://pastebin.com/f229a1ca9

> Bummer... don't know what could be happening. Can you check you if
> there's differences in 3D hardware acceleration in both cases?, if it is
> on you should see:
> 
> $ glxinfo | grep rendering
> direct rendering: Yes
> 
> -- Fernando
It answered yes on both kernels.