Re: [AD] Feedback about 3.9.28 for linux

[Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz <gradha@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:
> > I just discovered this: I am using the GPM repeater, but exmouse doesn't
> > work, although it reports correctly that the gpm repeater is being used.
> 
> However, the exmouse program _still_ locks, when i switch again to it.
> 
> Arghh... and just to improve the situation, I found out that grabber
> doesn't have this effect although it uses the mouse! Since grabber.c is
> longer than exmouse.c, I will try to start chopping off the latter to
> corner my problem better.

Finally! I think I know what's my problem. After chopping off the mouse
example, I discovered that it's not the mouse but the timers which locks
my computer. In fact, if in the exhello example I install the timers after
the keyboard, switch to another console and come back, the hello example
is blocked, waiting for it's alt+sys+k. 

Now, after reading some of the code, I think that this is related with the
fact that I don't have that vsync patch for the matrox framebuffer. Shawn,
could you email it to me again, please? I seem to have erased it
accidentaly. After I patch my kernel again, I will tell you the results,
but I am positive that it's the vsync thing doing something nasty, as
George told me he cannot reproduce the hang ups.

BTW, so much talk, and I still don't know if it's really correct to say
"my computer hanged up", or something like that. What's the "cientific" 
term? :-) 

Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz - gradha@xxxxxxxxxx
Gogosoftware - http://welcome.to/gogosoftware/

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