{"id":3830,"date":"2015-02-24T11:22:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T09:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/?p=3830"},"modified":"2016-07-24T22:08:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T20:08:44","slug":"intel-gma-and-random-x-org-slowdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/?p=3830","title":{"rendered":"Intel GMA and random X.org slowdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite many people seem to have the same problem that I did: occasional jumpy mouse and random slowdown\/freezes with X.org and Intel GMA (or newer). Dunno if the problem has been fixed already, but here&#8217;s something worth trying if system updates don&#8217;t do the trick (run as root):<\/p>\n<pre>echo 0 &gt;\/sys\/module\/drm_kms_helper\/parameters\/poll<\/pre>\n<p>Worked for me and another friend. To make it permanent, add the line to for example \/etc\/rc.local. The bug has something to do with X.org periodically checking for external displays, which seems to cause an irritating freeze ranging from a fraction of a second to even several seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite many people seem to have the same problem that I did: occasional jumpy mouse and random slowdown\/freezes with X.org and Intel GMA (or newer). Dunno if the problem has been fixed already, but here&#8217;s something worth trying if system updates don&#8217;t do the trick (run as root): echo 0 &gt;\/sys\/module\/drm_kms_helper\/parameters\/poll Worked for me and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3830"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4701,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830\/revisions\/4701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kameli.net\/marq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}