Re: Enlightenment makes the mouse freeze intermittently
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++
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