Slow and sluggish pc

[Takkies]

Hi all, I'm fairly new to the whole linux thing. I have installed Fedora 11 on my machine and my motherboard decided to stuff out, so i just put my hard drive into another pc, the old pc was amd and the one i'm using now is intel. So now i'm struggling to get my pc to run smoothly as it is very slow and sluggish. Can anyone please assist me to fix this problem.
Thanks

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

the one i'm using now is intel. So now i'm struggling to get my pc to run smoothly as it is very slow and sluggish.

Wrong Graphics Card driver causes this problem in most cases. Execute this code in Terminal :

su -
/sbin/lspci | grep - i vga
grep -i driver /etc/X11/xrog.conf

Post output here.

[Takkies]

Hi and Welcome !


Wrong Graphics Card driver causes this problem in most cases. Execute this code in Terminal :

su -
/sbin/lspci | grep - i vga
grep -i driver /etc/X11/xrog.conf

Post output here.

I did what you said and this is the outcome of it:
# /sbin/lspci | grep - i vga
grep: i: No such file or directory
grep: vga: No such file or directory

[MikeTbob]

No space between the "- i", it should be
lspci |grep -i vga

[Takkies]

No space between the "- i", it should be
lspci |grep -i vga

Do you mean like this?, Then i get this:

# /sbin/lspci |grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root

[MikeTbob]

Ok, very good. Now insert the other command and paste the results please.

grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf

[Takkies]

Ok, very good. Now insert the other command and paste the results please.

grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Ok, here we go.

# grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf
	Driver "vesa"

[MikeTbob]

Ok, you are using the Vesa driver, nothing wrong with that but it isn't optimal for your system. Try these commands and lets see if we can fix this quickly.
Log in as root to a terminal window.

nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

This will open the file in a text editor,,, scroll down and change the "Vesa" to "Intel" without the quotes.
Ctrl X to quit, Y to save, and press enter. Now log out of the Desktop and log back in, everything should be golden now.

[Takkies]

Ok, you are using the Vesa driver, nothing wrong with that but it isn't optimal for your system. Try these commands and lets see if we can fix this quickly.
Log in as root to a terminal window.

nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

This will open the file in a text editor,,, scroll down and change the "Vesa" to "Intel" without the quotes.
Ctrl X to quit, Y to save, and press enter. Now log out of the Desktop and log back in, everything should be golden now.

It is still the same i am afraid. I checked that xorg.conf file had changed but no change on the sluggishness. Now what do i do?

[MikeTbob]

You are sure the change took place? Use the above command to check.

grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf

You said you had an AMD and switched to Intel, it might be a kernel problem.Which kernel is being used? Please issue this command to find out.

uname -a