On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 12:02, Martin Cameron wrote: > Package: xserver-xfree86 > Version: 4.3.0-7 > Severity: normal > Tags: sid > > > When dragging windows around in gnome 2.4 audio > applications momentarily stop playing. > > Renicing the x server to 0 solves the problem completely. I suspect > this has to do with the new scheduling policies in kernel 2.6 making the > default -10 nice value too aggressive. > > Is the X server hard coded to use this nice value, or is it buried > in a script somewhere? >
/etc/X11/Xwrapper.config contains the preferred nice value. You can change it with: $ dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-common I thus suggest to close this bug. - Christian
