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>> I just finished installing Gentoo on a Dell Vostro 1320 laptop. It |
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>> has a 2.2Ghz Core Duo CPU, 3GB RAM, and a 7200RPM hard drive. |
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>> Navigating within firefox is pretty slow. It's the response time of |
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>> the application, not the network. It's much slower than my previous |
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>> laptop which has much weaker specs. |
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>> I noticed the HD light comes on when the system is pausing in firefox |
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>> sometimes. I don't have any swap at all, I'm using the CFQ, and /tmp |
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>> is mounted on tmpfs. Can anyone suggest where to look? |
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> When you're not using X does it still seem slow? You don't mention |
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> what kind of video or arch vs ~arch, but I would try different |
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> AccelMethod options in your xorg.conf. On my laptop everything in X |
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> was very slow until I set |
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> Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" |
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Thank you James and Paul. I read this: |
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http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/195836 |
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and downgraded to xf86-video-intel-2.7.1 and all is well. |
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- Grant |
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