> Stock kernel in the 2.6.18 area, as I recall. You actually think it's a
> driver? I was thinking hardware. There is one particular oddity-- my
> wife uses a tablet instead of a mouse, and the driver being used is the
> stock one for X (and probably old, since they don't ship tablet drivers
> with X anymore). I hate that thing, because every time I upgrade the OS,
> I have to compensate for that particular driver (either recompile it or
> something similar). It doesn't appear in top, but I'm not sure it would
> as a driver. My only concern about killing drivers is that sooner or
> later I'm going to hit something that's going to whack the snot out of
> the O/S, and then its speed won't be an issue, because the O/S won't
> perform without it.
>
> The other thing I'll say about the tablet is that on a prior computer,
> which was *not* slow, she also ran that tablet. (Different driver,
> probably, though.)
Is it a wacom graphire? The driver hasn't caused any issue on our
machines (athlonxp and opteron, knock on wood), and we're in the
2.6.18 area as well.
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