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Re: linux 8.3.25Tue: new linux-athena boxes

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Mar 6 10:24:52 2000

Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 10:24:48 -0500
Message-Id: <200003061524.KAA23321@vorpal-blade.mit.edu>
To: Joshua Jacobs <josh@mit.edu>
CC: bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[17518] in Athena Bugs"
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>


>   What should have happened: 
>   you should have 3 button mouse emulation enbabled in xfree86 so
>   that pasting is possible in X

We have now (actually a few weeks ago) replaced all of the mice on
these machines with 3-button mice.

>   also, is it me, or is the video extremely slow on the new linux
> athena boxes... the old sparcs are faster at moving windows around,
> but these machines are running at 550 mhz.

I hadn't noticed it personally.  Can you describe exactly what you are
doing when you see the slowness?

Thanks for taking the time to let us know about these problems.

	Jonathon Weiss
	jweiss@mit.edu
	MIT IS/Athena Programmer

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