On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Jack Bowling wrote: > > >Hey, Jon. As root in a terminal window, try the following command: > > > >killall magicdev > > > >and see if your problems go away. > > That is my all around solution to all problems. Or at least my > troubleshooting step number 1: rpm -e magicdev > Problem solved? Ok, good. No, ok, deeper investigation time... > > Also uninstall or disable magicdev if you have a cd or dvd > burner or you'll make hundreds of coasters. Mike, I tried researching magicdev about a year ago to try and understand what it was and was unable to find anything except some posts from Havoc Pennington on a Gnome forum and a short description. Do you know of any other source of information (apart from the source!). Also, I think that your guess about anti-aliased fonts may be accurate. I, like the OP, had a very sluggish system and tried the "killall magicdev" without much improvement. I'm going to try switching off anti-aliasing though. The system that shows the slowdown is a Celeron 466 with 64Mb RAM. Interestingly a 650MHz with 128Mb seems just fine. I wonder what the is the critical point for responsiveness. Oisin Feeley -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
