hello,
on a Dell Latitude CPi (300 Mhz PII) using Mandrake 9.0 I have problems with
smooth scrolling after a hwclock --hctosys. when I do that, i can't click
and drag windows anymore (have to right click, move), and i can't
smoothly scroll scrollbars (have to click on the arrows or somewhere in the
area between the thumb and appropriate arrow).
Has anyone seen this? I don't have access to any other Mandrake 9.0
desktop box right now, so I can't test to see if it manifests on desktops.
If it doesn't, then it may be a BIOS or other laptop specific issue.
I originally noticed the problem after waking up from an "apm -s". strangely
enough, right after waking up from "apm -s", doing an "apm -S" and then
waking up from that would fix the scrolling issue, but then the system time
(returned by "date") would not be synced with the hwclock time.
all of this is in KDE, although i tested in Gnome once and saw the same
problem with apm -s (didn't test with hwclock --hctosys though).
it seems that it's not just hwclock that does this. anything that sets the
system time will do the same. e.g., when i do a "date -s --set=..."
or an "ntpdate [insert_timeserver_here]", smooth scrolling goes away
again.
my installation is pretty much stock although of course there are some
RPMs that i've downloaded and installed (some from cooker, some
from other sources). the only RPMs that don't have -mdk in them
are:
opera-6.03-2002-813.1
Win4Lin-5.3.3c-d
Kernel-Win4Lin3-Mandrake9.0_2.4.19.16-01
gaim-0.59.8-1
i've installed some things from source, but they should not affect this
(PHP, apache).
thanks for any insight, tips or URLs.
tiger
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