Re: $200 PC

> Somewhat irritating default of trying to

i believe it was a bios setting on mine.

> At this point, I realize with horror I said more about its operation

i've been running 3.2-stable on one of these for a month now as my primary desktop at home, and have encountered two problems.

1. sometimes the network stops working. i can consistently cause this to happen when i use vncviewer to connect to Xvnc running on a linux box, then move windows on the linux box. the network also stops at other times, but i haven't determined anything else that can consistently stop it and i haven't yet taken the time to tcpdump while causing a network

• sometimes the mouse pointer starts appearing 20 pixels to the right of its focus - makes clicking on anything rather tricky! this starts to happen after a few hours of using X (where few can be 1 hour to 24 hours). After a few more hours the mouse pointer goes back to normal. i've tried adjusting my XF86Config file but have yet to solve this problem. i also haven't noticed anything that consistently causes this problem.

  i've begun to wonder if these problems are hardware issues, like bad memory, but i haven't noticed anything else indicative of such problems. have you encountered anything like this? also, could you share your XF86Config file with me?

  on a performance note, the machine is just barely fast enough for mplayer to work ok. sometimes i need to renice the process for better performance, and i can't do anything serious (like use gimp on large files) while playing movies.

  -f
  http://www.blackant.net/ Received on Mon Feb 17 16:21:05 2003

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