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