Re: How to change irq on dell inspiron 8500 ?

From: Bo Andresen (no_at_spam.invalid)
Date: 06/23/05

  • Next message: Alessandro Boggiano: "Re: How to change irq on dell inspiron 8500 ?" 
    Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 22:06:55 +0200

    Alessandro Boggiano wrote:
    > Dances With Crows ha scritto:
    >
    >> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 02:47:08 GMT, Alessandro Boggiano staggered into the
    >> Black Sun and said:
    >>
    >
    >>
    >>
    >>> My system is *VERY* slow when I have a lot of graphic output in a
    >>> terminal (I'm using gnome-terminal)
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> I've recently heard reports of gnome-terminal being really slow in other
    >> newsfroups. This is probably nothing to do with the IRQ, but with the
    >> particular version of gnome-terminal and its supporting libraries. I've
    >> never seen the problem firsthand, because I use KDE, and I don't
    >> remember the proposed solution, but groups.google probably remembers it.
    >
    >
    > You are right!
    > In the mornig I tried xterm and I have noticed that the slowdown was gone!
    >
    >
    >> I really don't think that's the problem. Go groups.google
    >> gnome-terminal, G-Dawg, and see what they say. Or start using KDE :-) .
    >> HTH,
    >
    > No mate! I'm a fluxbox addict!!! ;)
    >
    > Really thanks for you help I'm going too googling a lot! ;)
    >
    >
    > Cheers!
    > Alesandro

    As far as I know this has to do with fonts and formatting of the text.
    Gnome-terminal (Gnome) and Konsole (KDE) change the font to something
    more readable than the standard font that you see in xterm. This,
    however, slows the terminal down.

    Regards, Bo

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