<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I wonder if it is just a video output hang and your mouse activity makes it wake up. Did you check the hard drive light? Was it flickering?<br><br>John<br><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><span class="intro">"The only good use for Internet Explorer is to download Firefox"</span><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>==================================<br>John Eddie Kerr | Guelph, Ontario <br>==================================<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 6/5/09, Robert P. J. Day <i><rpjday@crashcourse.ca></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Robert P. J. Day
<rpjday@crashcourse.ca><br>Subject: [kwlug-disc] debian 5.0 (lenny) install goes faster by moving the mouse?<br>To: kwlug-disc@kwlug.org<br>Received: Friday, June 5, 2009, 2:14 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail"> i was installing debian 5.0 on one of my excess laptops this morning, and i was getting a bit frustrated that some package configurations seemed to be taking *forever* -- as in, a single package config taking more than a minute.<br><br> to make sure the system hadn't locked up, i just moved the mouse and, suddenly, a flurry of package config and install. as soon as the mouse stopped, back to crawling slowness. repeat, same result.<br><br> is there a reason for this? the only thing i could think was that package configuration during the installation needed some system randomness and moving the mouse generated enough to keep things moving along. other than that, i have no idea what that was all
about. and it was entirely reproducible. thoughts?<br><br>rday<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>kwlug-disc_kwlug.org mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:kwlug-disc_kwlug.org@kwlug.org" href="/mc/compose?to=kwlug-disc_kwlug.org@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc_kwlug.org@kwlug.org</a><br><a href="http://astoria.ccjclearline.com/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org" target="_blank">http://astoria.ccjclearline.com/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org</a><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table>