video problem

[Brian Hazelton]

yea its a laptop from 2006

On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 11:21 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 12, 2010 11:10 AM, Brian Hazelton wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I am running a fresh install of 10.10 and am having a slight problem. My
> > computer is doing great, except every 30seconds - 1 minute, the video
> > skips for about a quarter of a second even if the processor is not at
> > full demand. It happens even if no programs are running. I have a dell
> > inspiron 6000, 1.73ghz proc, and 1gig ram, intel 915gm graphic card
> > Any help would be great even if it is just to tell me it is because my
> > computer is pretty old.
> >
> >
> 
> Get a discrete graphic card. :-p
> 
> Oh wait...that's a lappie right?
> 
> Maybe it is a driver problem or there is something stalling i/o every so 
> often...
>