On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:20:23PM +0200, Jiri B. wrote: > On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 06:40:21 -0500 > Marco Peereboom <[email protected]> wrote: > > > dmesg? > > I have to first eliminate potential involvement of i/o slowdown because > of big use of softraid (i have everything except '/' on softraid). > > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:24:17AM +0200, Jiri B. wrote: > > > > did someone saw similar problem in scrotwm(1)? Eg. when I start > > > > xeyes(1) on empty workspace from menu M-p it simply "shut down" > > > > X. If I start eg. xcalc(1) then everything is ok. Another problem > > > > is with xlock(1). When I want to lock my screen and start > > > > xlock(1) eg. this way 'xlock -mode atlantis' then my computer > > > > completely hangs and I must to turn it off with button on case. > > > > Last problem which I discovered is with warzone game. When I > > > > start it on empty workspace then it says that timing of monitor > > > > is not ok for this app and X is not working anymore and I must > > > > kill X from console. > > > > > > > > So someone here with similar behaviour? > > > > > > scrotwm works OK for me with latest snapshot on Lenovo T400 (i386). > > > But it > > > > > > is incredebily slow comparable with same setup on Ubuntu :( > > Anyway, this always makes my scrotwm to be f*cked up: > > `mplayer -fs -vo sdl video'
Why are you using sdl for video playing in the first place? Almost always the default XVideo one is the one you want. -0- -- To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide a test load.
