On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 05:41:42PM +0100, Chris Beetham wrote: > Hello > > Would appreciate some advice if possible - there is a longer > description available at the link below. > > Essentially, I cannot get a current Linux distribution to work on my > Compaq CQ56 laptop. Ubuntu 10.04 lts works lovely but trying a newer > distribution seems to cause problems irrespective id the > desktop/distro used. > > The error in xorg.log is attached below - see line highlighted with > asterisks. > > Currently dual booting Mint 14 Cinnamon and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and > latter is as dependable as ever. Mint 14 however has problems - for > no discernible reason the error crops up, sometimes quickly > sometimes after an hour or two. The mouse begins to slow and then > crawl around screen - think this would be described as latency - > stop the mouse and cursor keeps moving and is difficult to control. > Then it all disappears only to reappear later. > > Tried Mint, Mageia, OpenSuse and few others together with kDE, XFCE, > Mate, Cinnamon and the problem always appears. > > Gues what I am hoping for is at least a pointer in right direction > if thats possible. The Xorg.log doesn't provide much clue, but at least it does rule out many contributing factors. Given the description of the problem, I would first check for swap thrashing and a memory leak. Or perhaps the Xorg.log is from before the problem is evident, in which case maybe resend the dmesg and Xorg.log. -Chris -- Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ xorg@xxxxxxxxxxx: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: list-xorg@xxxxxxxxxxx