RE: [Sheflug] System re-install :)

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.org.uk>]

> Having decided that SuSE was all-very-nice-thank-you-but-do-you-
> really-need-to-take-up-that-much-disk-space? I resorted to the 
> old faithful of Slackware.

Nice ;-)

> So now I've got a machine that's got about 1GB more space that it did 
> when SuSE was on, and it's running nearly all the same stuff. In real 
> terms, it's probobably nearer 500MB free taking acocunt of log files and 
> other customizations. Once I plonk Staroffice on, it may knock to to 
> above a gig foot print, but that's still smaller than SuSE and the same 
> point...I'm trying to think if there's owt else I've missed off. Can't 
> think of owt else at moment.

I found a similarly capable machine installed using debian gave me about 2Gb
more free space, thanks to all the junk I didn't even know about. I did a
default install with some extras which I like, and it was HUGE!

> works all fine and dandy - and exmh seems quicker with it, but its giving 
> xmms a hard time with very noticable interference if I do something like 
> "ls -l". Hunting about on google, a few others have had similar problem, 
> and it's probably XFree being tuned for performance it's doing things 
> that interrupt the flow of data to xmms. No resolution though yet, so any 
> suggestions on possible cures [short of downgrading X to 3.3.<x>] welcome 
>:)

Indeed. Try scrolling with imwheel and listen to that wonderful sound. Ugh.
Not a solution as such, but it seems to be something to do with the tuning of
XF86. I use the nvidia driver with a TNT2 M64 (yes yes, I know, bin it and all
that) but it does actually work quite well (I get 640x480 at obscene frame
rates out of Quake3 now, and Tux Racer is superb).

I have found that only stuff like imwheel causes problems. Scrolling with the
actual keyboard, which is supposedly what imwheel emulates, doesn't have any
effect, and general fs access doesn't have any noticable effect at all. I don't
know if filesystem has anything to do with it. My system entirely uses Reiserfs
(apart from boot) so if your's uses ext2 or ext3 (is that stable enough for
use? I haven't been following...) it could cause a noticable difference?

2p

-- 
Craig Andrews
craig@fishbot.org.uk

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