RE: [Sheflug] System re-install :)

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] barriebremner.com>]

>>>>> "Craig" == Craig Andrews <craig [at] fishbot.org.uk> writes:


    >> 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
    >> :)

    Craig> Indeed. Try scrolling with imwheel and listen to that
    Craig> wonderful sound. Ugh.  Not a solution as such, but it seems
    Craig> to be something to do with the tuning of XF86.

    Craig> I have found that only stuff like imwheel causes
    Craig> problems. 


Erm,

I'm running XFree 4.0.3 on my RH7.1 box, and 4.0.1 on the RH7.0 boxen
without any hassles.

The mouse config in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 is

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Mouse0"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/mouse"
        Option          "Protocol"              "IMPS/2"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "no"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
EndSection

It's the ZAxis bit that deals with the middle wheel. I tried using
IMWheel with 3.3.6 and it was a nightmare - config files just to get
Netscape to do it's thing right etc...

XMMS doesn't skip a beat, both on my folk's machine (RH7, X4.0.1, 64Mb) and my
own (RH7.1, X4.0.3, lots of Mb) when scrolling, opening windows, etc.

I wouldn't say that the RH XFree setup is exactly tuned to perform...

Baz.


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