-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Well, I'm still fighting my new laptop. I have tried just about everything I can think of to stop the pauses. Originally, I thought it was arts, but I've tried several different versions of arts, and that's not it. I've tried building excessively stripped kernels, with and without acpi and that doesn't matter. I have disabled apm on the hard drive so it is spinning constantly, but that didn't work. Finally, tonight, I stumbled apon a solution. Gnome. I installed Dropline Gnome for slackware. DVD's play fine, no pausing, everything seems to be quite okay in Gnome. So now, do I switch to Gnome, and have to find all the programs to replace my beloved KDE programs, or do I keep trying to figure out what part of KDE is 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 become a Gnome guy. I can't find any good editors like Kate, and I sincerely love Kmail. Evolution I just can't stand... Is there anyone that is real familiar with KDE internals that might be able to 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 every 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 running. I've noticed with top -d .5 'kinit' seems to pop up every other 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 Gnome? I do a lot of perl, c, bash, html, php and other stuff. I love the syntax hilighting. Any ideas? nathan - -- Nathan England Arcanum Linux ! nathan at the-arcanum.org jabber id: linuxjunkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular." - --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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/8SN8sbwJjkTsIFwRAoqhAJ98bQ3xTujh/BXxmtD53pQrdE8PrQCgqt09 dAN7uiihh4u4JJvDIz2qOWM= =BHVB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.