Intel(r) Core?2 Duo Processors"

[Dotan Cohen]

On 14/10/06, James Wilkinson <fedora at aprilcottage.co.uk> wrote:
> John Wendel wrote:
> > Look at the Xorg Time. Doesn't 347:19.29 with an uptime of 15:35 seem
> > extremely high? On my box, X uses about 4 minutes / hour of uptime.
> >
> > And the load averages on most of the desktops I use are mostly in the
> > 0.1 - 0.3 range. This box has something eating CPU. I don't think the
> > file system is the problem.
>
> Dotan Cohen replied:
> > Thanks, John. What would be a first good step to diagnos this?
>
> First thing *I'd* check is that you're not using a VESA driver. That
> *will* eat processor time, since it's getting the processor to do a lot
> of stuff that a graphics card will do much more efficiently.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> James.

Thanks. This motherboard has the graphic card built in- I just plug
the monitor into the back of the m/b. Note that it has an onboard
soundcard and an onboard ethernet port as well, both of which I
replaced with PCI devices. The onboard sound is trash, and I'm not
sure about the onboard ethernet.

So, how can I check if I'm using a VESA driver?

Thanks for all the help and patience.

Dotan Cohen

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