On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 12:43:32PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > I just started using X on my group's Nautilus, and (almost) everything > works great! Galeon/mozilla, gnumeric, evolution... I am so impressed > that so much works so well under alpha -- but then, most stuff also > works well on my pmac at home, and a Netwinder I use (ARM). Haven't > tried making the Voodoo 3 DRM work yet, will have to upgrade to a 2.4 > kernel first... Hooray for cross-platform free software, and Debian in > particular! > > So, the one problem I'm having is that if I run enlightenment, the mouse > stops working for a couple of seconds at a time, then works for a couple > of seconds, on and off. With sawfish, I see this one-or-two second > delay only once every few minutes, and don't see it at all with no WM > running -- then again, haven't spent enough time sans WM to know whether > that has the every-few-minutes problem like sawfish. > > Oh- enlightenment also segfaults a lot, but haven't looked into this yet > with gdb/strace. And it's unlikely to be supported, since they're > focusing on E17... > > This is a UP1000 with Voodoo3 and debconf-managed XF86Config-4 and > Xwrapper-config, X nice-value set to -10. > > Any ideas?
Any chance there's one of those "let's poll the CDROM every 2 seconds to see if there's a new CD been just put in" utilities, and you have an IDE CDROM (IDE seems to make it worse, IMHO)? --Jay++ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jay A Estabrook Alpha Engineering - LINUX Project Compaq Computer Corp. - MRO1-2/K15 (508) 467-2080 200 Forest Street, Marlboro MA 01752 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
