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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5739 ; Fri, 01 Jan 93 01:54:20 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!metro!news 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> Sender: news@ucc.su.OZ.AU Nntp-Posting-Host: physics.su.oz.au Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia References: <1992Dec30.005909.15079@tackle.uucp> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 07:08:26 GMT Lines: 45 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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ David Dawes <dawes@physics.su.oz.au> DoD#210 | Phone: +61 2 692 2639 School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia | Fax: +61 2 660 2903 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I was so satisfied, deep down inside, like a hand in a velvet glove -- AC/DC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------