Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

[Dale]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sunday 28 December 2008 22:52:08 Dale wrote:
>
>> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>
>
>
>>> It got worse with kernel 2.6.28, btw, especially mouse cursor
>>> movement.  It gets stuck and skips very noticeably.  Fortunately, it's
>>> not a point yet where I would describe it as unusable, but if the
>>> trend continues, desktop will be totally unusable by 2.6.31/32 when
>>> doing something that produces load.
>>>
>> So it is not just me that has screwy mouse movement.  I been using a old
>> kernel for a while now and even thought it was just a wrong setting on
>> my part.
>>
>> Has anyone been telling the kernel folks about this problem so they can
>> fix it or roll something back?
>>
>
> The cynic in me wants to say that Colin Kolivas tried telling the kernel devs
> for years about it and got stone-walled and ignored for years, despite
> maintaining a set of desktop patches that worked really well. Eventually he
> gave up and walked away in disgust when Ingo Molnar submitted scheduler
> patches that looked awfully like Colin's, and his were accepted....
>
> I'm not that much of a cynic though. Instead I'll recommend you find a set of
> desktop patches that work well and roll a kernel from those. The kernel devs
> are mostly paid by organizations that have a vested interest in having Linux
> work fabulously on big iron, so that's where the focus will tend to go.
>
> This is opensource, where you get to bash the code into any shape you need to
> get it to suit your needs :-) I myself don't need desktop patches (yet), but
> if I did, I would probably first look at the patches the Ubuntu kernel devs
> apply, followed by fedora
>
>
>

I use the Gentoo sources so why don't they patch them?  I've tried
patching kernels before and it didn't work to well.

Dale

:-)  :-)