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Well, I'm still fighting my new laptop. I have tried just about everything =
I=20
can think of to stop the pauses.=20
Originally, I thought it was arts, but I've tried several different version=
s=20
of arts, and that's not it. I've tried building excessively stripped kernel=
s,=20
with and without acpi and that doesn't matter. I have disabled apm on the=20
hard drive so it is spinning constantly, but that didn't work.

=46inally, tonight, I stumbled apon a solution. Gnome.
I installed Dropline Gnome for slackware. DVD's play fine, no pausing,=20
everything seems to be quite okay in Gnome.=20
So now, do I switch to Gnome, and have to find all the programs to replace =
my=20
beloved KDE programs, or do I keep trying to figure out what part of KDE is=
=20
causing these system hangs every few seconds?

I'm at a loss now. I really hate to abandon all my years of KDE so I can=20
become a Gnome guy. I can't find any good editors like Kate, and I sincerel=
y=20
love Kmail. Evolution I just can't stand...

Is there anyone that is real familiar with KDE internals that might be able=
 to=20
tell me what is causing the .25 second hangs every few seconds while in KDE=
 ?

Like, if I watch a DVD with xine, or play Quake3 it will pause and burp eve=
ry=20
few seconds.. I guess hiccup is the right word.
In Gnome it doesn't do this. I can only imagine it is something KDE is=20
running. I've noticed with top -d .5  'kinit' seems to pop up every other=20
second and immediately goes away. Is it polling for something???

I don't want to give up my Kate. Are there any good replacements for it in=
=20
Gnome? I do a lot of perl, c, bash, html, php and other stuff. I love the=20
syntax hilighting. Any ideas?

nathan
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Nathan England

Arcanum Linux !
nathan at the-arcanum.org
jabber id: linuxjunkie@jabber.earth.li

"A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular."
=2D --Adlai Stevenson


Registered Linux User #189789, Machine #106603
www.sincerechoice.org


Todays Fortune:

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
		-- Maslow
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