I was able to this on my laptop the other day... turned out I had a runaway program .... when I did top I saw and found the problem... (I use the suspend button and lphdisk on my laptop.) Next time it does this try top and or ps -ax and see if something is going nuts. It definitely sounds like something is eating up your cpu though.
James On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 04:02, Gerald Timothy Quimpo wrote: > hello, > > on a Dell Latitude CPi (300 Mhz PII) using Mandrake 9.0 I have problems with > smooth scrolling after a hwclock --hctosys. when I do that, i can't click > and drag windows anymore (have to right click, move), and i can't > smoothly scroll scrollbars (have to click on the arrows or somewhere in the > area between the thumb and appropriate arrow). > > Has anyone seen this? I don't have access to any other Mandrake 9.0 > desktop box right now, so I can't test to see if it manifests on desktops. > If it doesn't, then it may be a BIOS or other laptop specific issue. > > I originally noticed the problem after waking up from an "apm -s". strangely > enough, right after waking up from "apm -s", doing an "apm -S" and then > waking up from that would fix the scrolling issue, but then the system time > (returned by "date") would not be synced with the hwclock time. > > all of this is in KDE, although i tested in Gnome once and saw the same > problem with apm -s (didn't test with hwclock --hctosys though). > > it seems that it's not just hwclock that does this. anything that sets the > system time will do the same. e.g., when i do a "date -s --set=..." > or an "ntpdate [insert_timeserver_here]", smooth scrolling goes away > again. > > my installation is pretty much stock although of course there are some > RPMs that i've downloaded and installed (some from cooker, some > from other sources). the only RPMs that don't have -mdk in them > are: > > opera-6.03-2002-813.1 > Win4Lin-5.3.3c-d > Kernel-Win4Lin3-Mandrake9.0_2.4.19.16-01 > gaim-0.59.8-1 > > i've installed some things from source, but they should not affect this > (PHP, apache). > > thanks for any insight, tips or URLs. > > tiger
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