On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 17:01, Michel D�nzer wrote: > On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 08:54, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
[..] > I appreciate the report, but I use the experimental XFree86 packages > myself and follow the development of the XSF SVN repository, so I have > been aware of this for a while. :) I'll fix it as soon as I get around > to it, in the meantime I personally hold xlibmesa-gl-dev at > 4.3.0-0pre1v4. ok now I try to pretend patience again. > > And while we are at it, I now get a blank screen when switching back to > > console... it even does not go on again when switching back to X... all > > that helps is putting the machine to sleep and back or reboot. > > Can you try and determine what change caused this? uuhh, it works now... not 100% sure whether this is because I switched back from 2.6.1-rc1-ben1 to 2.6.0-ben1 or happened in the recent apt-get upgrades... > > PS: You've won the bet. The scrolling speed thing in 2.6. *is* a > > schedulers issue... > > Sounds like you have further interesting information to share on that? > :) unfortunately not really. There is a thread I started at lkml (http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0401.0/0513.html) but no solution... all that is known is that nicks scheduler does not make this weird scrolling issue happen and that buffering the xterm output resolves this issue (i.e. ls -l /usr/bin | dd bs=1024 ... and that it appears in quite many terminals but e.g. Eterm. Soeren.
