Permissions problems are being a huge PIMA

[gene heskett]

On Tuesday, February 01, 2011 08:42:27 pm Reinhold Rumberger did opine:

> Am Mittwoch 02 Februar 2011, um 01:07:00 schrieb gene heskett:
> <snip: I'm a little out of my depth here, so I'll focus on what I *do*
> know>
> 
> > 1. when I logged in, x wouldn't run, so I looked to see if I had an
> > /etc/xorg.conf,
> 
> Just checking to see that you actually mean /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
> 
> > but I didn't, other than old backup copies, so I copied it
> > to xorg.conf and edited it to replace the 'vesa' driver with the ati,
> > which may have been my mistake, but it turns out that the box is now
> > running at about 2% of its former speed when emc is running.  Bear in
> > mind I changed it to see if the ati/radeon driver was any better, but
> > it is far worse, dozens of times slower than the vesa driver was 2
> > weeks ago.
> > 
> > So, i need to go back to the vesa driver, but that also is acting like
> > its a 25mhz 386sx.  Keyboard responses are typically 2 seconds to
> > recognize a keydown, and maybe 3 secs to recognize a keyup, with a
> > similar lag between the keyup, and another keydown else there is no
> > respnse at all.  Mouse clicks similarly lag, and the screen update
> > itself is another 2 to 4 seconds.
> 
> Is that only with this emc thing? Does it make use of 3D-acceleration?
> I'm pretty sure that changing your UID shouldn't have that effect,
> especially as the X server is normally started by root/a special system
> user. Have you tried running memtest? What do dmesg, /var/log/messages,
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log, ... say? Anything suspicious?
> 
>   --Reinhold

They all look fairly clean.  Nothing reaches up and gets my attention.  
Some un-recognized keycodes, and of course the realtime errors caused by 
whatever is making it be super laggy.

Is x actually running at the point where the first user logs in?  Or is 
that started after the correct pw has been entered?

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to
be discarded:  that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?