hello list, [warning: this post is a fairly long newbie-ish linux problem and subsequent call for help - those with low tolerances for such things, please skip!] i've been trying to learn how to compile a kernel properly, and after about 15 botched kernels i finally got a working 2.4.21 running on my debian sid box, configured properly with my athlon xp 2100 cpu, ethernet, sound, nvidia drivers, usb mouse and audio support, and so on. everything looks dandy when i boot up, except for a couple of error messages about 'cannot locate module char-major 10', 'cannot initialize agpgart module', and some nls modules which can't be located -- none of which particular bothers me. all my modules show up fine after checking with 'lsmod' and my various system components all seem to be working fine. that said, i seem to be experiencing inexplicable system slowdowns using kde 3.1 where the cpu usage spikes to around 80% or so, the mouse becomes unresponsive, and any audio playing (xmms usually) starts to stutter. i've tried isolating the problem to a particular program - i noticed xmms seemed to be occupying several processes all around 5%, so i killed it, then X started doing the same. then today the same thing happened with just mozilla open. i was previously running the default debian install kernel 2.4.18-bf.2.4 with no problems. which leads me to believe that somehow i configured something wrong in the kernel, though i've googled for info on just about every kernel option and think i have everything ok. could any of you linux gurus offer any explanation of why/how a new kernel could be responsible for these weird system problems? or would it be more likely some kde bug? i regularly (once every few days) run apt-get update & dist-upgrade.. is that more likely the bug? sorry for the long post, and i appreciate any help anyone can offer, best, nick _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list