If you run one of a large number of programs on X [mahjongg shows it
well] (possibly, outside of X too???) you can see on my SMP Athlon
system that it accelerates the "timer" fields in its X protocol
incredibly fast. Glibc? Kernel stuff? An "apt-get upgrade" caused
it I think when gnome got updated.. or maybe XFree or somesuch.
Every single event seems to increment it forward
in Mahjongg. It's somewhat impressive. I "finished" a puzzle in 29
minutes when it took me only 10 in the real world. You could hurtle
forward 10 mintues in mahjongg merely by zooming the pointer across the
window back and forth. Flash anims actually run strangely slower and
jerky.
This started to show first when auto-repeat keystrokes sped up
unmanagably.. if turned on by GNOME. (if turned on by "xset r on"
only, it seems to work??).
It also makes double-clicking a fond memory. Can't happen.. no matter
what the setting is.
DPMS shows up very fast... no matter how long I put it into the future.
Now that I got radeon DRI working for 3D.. tuxracer and bzflag are too
fast to play.
Nothing regarding time on my system seems to matter, unless closely
linked to sound card feeds or some such..... and I cannot see
any bugs around kernel or glibc (via google at least) that mention it.
The reason I'm writing this is because it appeared to show up a kernel
or two ago or on a gnome upgrade. Arguably it may even be XFree86-4.3 specific or
GNOME specific .. but I think it would show up on its bug-discussions if it were
common. (I don't see it currently).
Currently I do the big no-no of mirroring Cooker and "apt-get" with it
and contrib. It's been okay recently and all the new stuff appears
magically. Live on the edge!! However this is what I get I suppose.
Mind you: anything like MPlayer (with sound turned on only!!) or XMMS
seem fine .. but they are intimately linked to flow-control in
sound hardware.
Thanks in advance.
-- CH
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