Permissions problems are being a huge PIMA

[reini]

On Mittwoch 02 Februar 2011, 02:47:33, gene heskett wrote:
> 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?

If you do a graphical login, sure, *DM need an X server. It might actually be 
worth a try dropping to a tty before login and using startx to start the X 
server (obviously, first do a "sudo stop kdm" or whatever you use to log in).

  --Reinhold