From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Nov 10 11: 4:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from pendragon.tacni.net (mail.tacni.net [216.178.136.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D67C337B418 for ; Sat, 10 Nov 2001 11:03:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 35186 invoked by alias); 10 Nov 2001 19:03:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cerebro.superhero.org) (216.201.173.186) by ns1.tacni.net with SMTP; 10 Nov 2001 19:03:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 99549 invoked by uid 1000); 10 Nov 2001 19:04:29 -0000 Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 13:04:29 -0600 From: Erich Zigler To: John Utz Cc: t6nu , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Choppy picture with Sawfish+GNOME and fxtv Message-ID: <20011110130429.A94730@cerebro.superhero.org> References: <20011110101222.B85009@cerebro.superhero.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from john@utzweb.net on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 12:48:02PM -0600 X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat 10 Nov 2001, John Utz wrote: > i am utterly astounded that this works! > yup! this code is a permanent while loop. it has no function calls in it, > so the OS is never free to choose to defer running the function so that > it can run something else. (more or less! this is an overly simple > explanation of multitasking :-) ) > why hogging up the computer could possibly fix fxtv on sawfish is utterly > incomprehensible. > it's sort of like saying 'here put these huge bags of concrete in your > honda, it will accelerate faster and give you a higher top speed'.... t6nu - What WindowManager are you running? -- Erich Zigler To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message