Re: [Sheflug] System re-install :)

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

> > 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 don't have that sort of mouse - it's a simple 2-button serial mouse :) 
Apps I've found that affect the xmms stream so far are xmms (when it's 
outputting anything and has to update scroll bar, so imagine an 'ls -l' 
in a /bin or other suitably long directory) and netscape (when using 
cursor keys to scroll up and down a page).

Vid card is bog std. S3 ViRGE/DX with 2MB on board...I'm gonna take X 
down and fiddle around with some of the settings - starting with adding 
"Accel Off" and see what that does. A few other things I can tweak to do 
with PCI, memory and fifo's but it's mostly on/off stuff. I'll play and 
see what happens.

> 
> 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?
> 

ext2 - but XMMS doesn't read data /that/ often ... only a block at a 
time, which could be once every few seconds or so. No, it's somewhere 
further up...maybe X 4 puts more strain on kernel context-switching? I 
dunno. I may downgrade the kernel to 2.2.14 as that's what I was running 
before with no problems.

Chris...


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