Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> There's something fundamentally wrong with your OS architecture when 
>> copying a directory full of files from one drive to another makes your 
>> hardware-accelerated mouse cursor so jittery it's literally unusable. 
>> Sheesh.
> 
>   Are you sure it's a problem with the OS and not the hardware?

I never had it happen before, nope, and it doesn't happen unless I'm 
flogging at disks.

I mean, I think it's that the touchscreen bit is probably running in 
user space, and the USB channel is probably hogging a bunch of kernel 
CPU decoding packets or something. The CPU time always skyrockets when 
whapping away at USB.

But if you're not handling something as easy as moving the cursor 
pointer in an interrupt routine when the hardware supports sprites for 
the cursor, there's something wrong, methinks. I wish AmigaDOS scaled. :-)

I think I figured out why my Linux audio is inconsistently functional, 
too. There are messages showing up in dmesg about not being able to load 
the new microcode for the audio card or something, and then /dev/audio 
doesn't show up. If I leave the power off long enough after running 
Windows, it seems to work much more reliably, so I'm suspecting Windows 
is reconfiguring the board, then Linux tries to reconfigure it in an 
incompatible way. Or something.  Annoying.  :-)

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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