William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is more than one cause. Check the forums, its full of this > issue. The definite cause for me on a celery dell laptop was the gnome > battery applet. It has a known bug (fixed???) where it stalls the > machine whilst reading /proc under apm. > > On a later machine with a much faster p4, you can sometimes see it > wandering a little, but never as much as previously. ide accesses (esp > burning cd's) was another cause. Check the unmask irq and dma.
Another problem could be using framebuffer display on the console. Cheers, Juri -- Juri Haberland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
