Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 28 December 2008 22:52:08 Dale wrote: > >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> > > >>> It got worse with kernel 2.6.28, btw, especially mouse cursor >>> movement. It gets stuck and skips very noticeably. Fortunately, it's >>> not a point yet where I would describe it as unusable, but if the >>> trend continues, desktop will be totally unusable by 2.6.31/32 when >>> doing something that produces load. >>> >> So it is not just me that has screwy mouse movement. I been using a old >> kernel for a while now and even thought it was just a wrong setting on >> my part. >> >> Has anyone been telling the kernel folks about this problem so they can >> fix it or roll something back? >> > > The cynic in me wants to say that Colin Kolivas tried telling the kernel devs > for years about it and got stone-walled and ignored for years, despite > maintaining a set of desktop patches that worked really well. Eventually he > gave up and walked away in disgust when Ingo Molnar submitted scheduler > patches that looked awfully like Colin's, and his were accepted.... > > I'm not that much of a cynic though. Instead I'll recommend you find a set of > desktop patches that work well and roll a kernel from those. The kernel devs > are mostly paid by organizations that have a vested interest in having Linux > work fabulously on big iron, so that's where the focus will tend to go. > > This is opensource, where you get to bash the code into any shape you need to > get it to suit your needs :-) I myself don't need desktop patches (yet), but > if I did, I would probably first look at the patches the Ubuntu kernel devs > apply, followed by fedora > > >
I use the Gentoo sources so why don't they patch them? I've tried patching kernels before and it didn't work to well. Dale :-) :-)
