On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:06:24AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > ... why would x version 3 work fine (same kernel), > and xfree86 v4 not? Possibly because XFree6 4.2.1 has a different event scheduler in the X server. > you are entitled to your doubts, in the same way that > i am entitled to guess as to where the problem might lie > and to inform you and others of those guesses. > > i only mention it because there is an outstanding > kernel-related keyboard bug i saw in the lists of "is this > bug already in this list?" thing. > > if someone is going to investigate that one in the kernel, > they might wish to investigate this one as well. > > that's all. Well, our kernel maintainer has been unresponsive to the kernel keybounce bug, which I see on the virtual console of my iBook from time to time. He insists it's X's fault. > > I've seen the same problem on my 2001 iBook 600 MHz when the internal > > hard drive is under heavy load. > > that's the one! > > hard drive activity: at the same time, mouse goes mad if you move it. > > as i mentioned above, this did not occur under the ATI accelerated > X server (version 3). The mouse acceleration handling has likely also changed since XFree86 3.x. That code base is very old by now. Much is different. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | De minimis non curat lex. branden@debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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