On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:40:14 +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Caoilte O'Connor (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >> On Saturday 27 March 2004 02:36, Olle Eriksson wrote: >>> On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 09:25, Caoilte O'Connor wrote: >
>>>> Whenever I'm doing something CPU intensive my mouse >>>> becomes unresponsive, my mp3 player skips constantly >>>> and the like. This didn't used to happen for me under >>>> 2.4 >> [Snip solution - enabling DMA] > > For the archive: I had similar problems. In some situations (opening new > programs, switching windows), xmms skipped, and in my case changing the > nice value of XFree to 0 (using dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common) solved > the problem. See also the post-halloween document: > > <http://www.linux.org.uk/~davej/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt> > (section "Process scheduler improvements") How does running the X-server with a *higher* priority (-10 nice value as opposed to 0) cause problems like the mouse skipping? I would think that if the X-server had higher priority, it would be able to respond to mouse events faster and move the cursor faster. -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. ***** My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
