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- From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes)
- Subject: Re: Minor XFree86 problems, long function key string bug in elvis
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.070826.22358@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
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- Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
- References: <1992Dec30.005909.15079@tackle.uucp>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 07:08:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.005909.15079@tackle.uucp> jc@tackle.uucp (John Capo) writes:
- >I have XFree86 running and only have a few problems left to solve.
- >
- > 1. Auto-repeat is very slow. I can turn it on and off via command
- > line switches or in Xconfig but I can't change the repeat or
- > delay rate.
- >
- > 2. Num lock does not work at all.
- >
- > 3. I have no bell. I have tried various command line switches and
- > xset options but nothing. Same hardware works fine with DOS and
- > ISC running ISC.
-
- 1 and 3 are because there was no kernel support. Holger's codrv does
- provide support for those features.
-
- 2 is a more complicated problem -- but the next release will handle NumLock
- much better.
-
- >I have not seen these problems mentioned on the net.
- >
- >Another thing I have noticed is that my machine is on its knees when
- >I am compiling and running X at the same time. It may take 20 seconds
- >to expose a window. Same hardware with X386 and ISC only exibited this
- >slowdown when compiling, running X, and my cron job that rebuilds the
- >uucp paths file and uuwho database kicked in. I added a second disk
- >with 16M of swap but no difference.
- >
- > No name 386/33, 8M RAM, 128K cache.
- > Adaptec 1542B, 2 Maxtor 120MB, Archive 60MB tape, Julian's driver.
- > Compuadd generic ET4000 VGA card.
- > WD8000 ethernet card.
- > All of the kernel patches in Terry's patchkit.
-
- Which compiler were you using on ISC? gcc requires more VM than ISC's
- native compiler. The simplest(?) solution is to get more RAM.
-
- David
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