Letters lag behind my keyboard strokes. Intrepid 32bit KDE 4.2

[Steven Vollom]

On Wednesday 18 February 2009 19:50:41 Norberto Bensa wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Steven Vollom
>
> <stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > When I write an email, the letters lag behind my typing.  It is very
> > distracting.  I find myself stopping to wait to see if my words are
> > spelled accurately.  I lost part of a finger and make a lot of typos. 
> > Anyway, is this a configuration problem or perhaps a memory problem?
>
> Maybe related to your problem with video playback. What video card do
> you have? Are you using the right video driver?
>
> Also, can you tell us the load of the machine ('uptime' from terminal
> should tell you)?
>
>
> Regards,
> Norberto
steven at Yesua:~$ uptime
 20:05:14 up  4:36,  1 user,  load average: 1.11, 1.12, 1.09
steven at Yesua:~$

How do I understand what these numbers mean?

Thanks!
Steven