Funky X11 on Summer 2000 iMac

Colin Charles byte at aeon.com.my
Wed May 25 11:47:00 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 22:19 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:

> iMac kept rebooting during rawhide install - at random places but always
> while downloading, doing a minimal install got it to install all the
> way.

Bad mirror? How did you perform the install, did you have a local
mirror?

> I'm currently booting into run level 3 - X11 starts rather slowly (via
> startx) and ssh'ing in and running top shows it using an insane amount
> of the CPU - between 94 and 99.

What's hogging the CPU ?

> It will eventually suddenly drop and I can move the mouse etc. but as
> soon as I click something, anything, it gets bogged down again and the
> usage of X in top skyrockets.

Hmm, odd. I faced this issue a while back, and never had time to debug
it, and it disappeared with the next rawhide release. Gah

> my xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log file can be viewed here:
> http://mpeters.us/imac_xorg/

Cursory inspection, looking sane
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