Keyboard Lag

[James Takac]

Hi Guys

On Monday 06 April 2009 04:31:12 Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Vincent Trouilliez
> >
> > <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> >> I am not sure what I am about to describe is your problem, but at least
> >> it's a potential lead.
> >> My problem was that when I was typing a long e-mail, regularly the
> >> cursor would stop typing my text, it would hang for a few seconds, then
> >> the text I typed during this interval would appear all of a sudden.
> >> I found that the problem was two fold:
>
> Sorry to bring up a dead soldier, but I just upgraded from 8.04 to
> 8.10 and immediately found myself in a similar situation. This is
> maybe my 4th Ubuntu upgrade on this system, so I know how it should
> respond. Changing desktops from screen 1 to screen 2 == irritatingly
> slow. Typing in most apps -- EVEN in a local terminal -- would hang
> for a second or so, like the system was very busy. But it wasn't.
> Nothing ususual would show in top anyway. And I was doing nothing
> different than what I normally have done on this system.
>
> The upgrade did put me in a much higher screen resolution, 1360x768,
> and a dpi of 108 (wierd). I really kind of liked that, but tried
> dropping that back down. That made an immediate difference, but its
> still slower than previously. I then found X using more CPU than I
> could remember, but not really spiking just using an inordinate amount
> of CPU. Played around with preferences, and found one or more of
> themes effected CPU. So, after tinkering with this stuff for a couple
> of hours, it is better, but not as responsive as 8.04.
>
> --
> Hal


I sometimes get keyboard lags on my laptop and each time it would clear up as 
soon as I removed the battery. On this laptop the is a prob with the battery 
and how it charges. When that problem surfaces so does the keyboard lag. 
Though I'm not sure why

James