What video driver is Xorg using? If you are using VESA or some other generic driver you will see that happen. Troy wrote: > I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 on a HP Pavilion ze4125 laptop (AMD Athlon XP > 1600+ [1.4Ghz] with 1 gig of RAM. However, I've experienced the issues > described below with other versions of Ubuntu, and other distributions. > > Current symptoms: > Mouse will jerk when moving - moves fine for awhile, then all of a > sudden quickly stops for a brief second. > CPU usage showing 100% spikes frequently, and I'm only running Top in > Terminal, Firefox, and System Monitor > CPU temperature ranges from 40c-60c. Is this normal? > Fan on laptop running 99% of the time. > Overall slow response. > > I originally thought I may have a HDD issue, but numerous diagnostic > utilities state HDD is fine. I now wonder if my CPU is the culprit. I > searched the repositories for a diagnostic utility, but did not see > any. Can anyone recommend a diagnostic utility for Linux? Any other > ideas as what might be the issue? > > Here is what the first few lines in Top show > > top - 13:35:25 up 1:21, 3 users, load average: 0.44, 0.49, 0.78 > Tasks: 102 total, 5 running, 97 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 31.6%us, 5.3%sy , 0.0%ni, 63.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, > 0.0%st > Mem: 1002092k total, 526172k used, 475920k free, 16712k buffers > Swap: 489972k total, 0k used, 489972k free, 310824k cached > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ > COMMAND > 6592 troy 15 0 17888 10m 7432 R 21.2 1.0 0:02.72 > metacity > 6525 root 16 0 105m 19m 7548 R 15.9 2.0 0:33.10 > Xorg > 6783 troy 15 0 210m 70m 22m R 5.3 7.2 2:46.20 > firefox-bin > 1 root 18 0 2952 1856 532 S 0.0 0.2 0:01.30 > init > > > > Thanks, > > Troy > > -- > Website of the week: > http://www.ubuntu.com/ > > The Free Alternative to M$ Office: > http://www.openoffice.org > > My Blog: > http://troythetechguy.blogspot.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list