Making X work on Interactive 386/ix

[Larry Campbell]

In article <4572 at umbc3.UMBC.EDU> dipto at umbc3.umbc.edu (Dipto Chakravarty) writes:
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-On an ALR 33/486 we are running Interactive 386/ix 2.0.2, along with 
-their X Windows 1.1 distribution ... and the performance sucks.
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-We have a Microsoft serial mouse and a high-performance Microfield
-V8 graphics card on the system, ... but, the mouse drags are at a 
-lag of 3-4 seconds behind!

Something is horribly wrong with your system.  I run 386/ix 2.0.2 with
Interactive's X11 1.1 on a 20 MHz 386 and the performance is pretty good --
actually very good, except for loading big bitmaps.  At work I have a 25 MHz
386 running SCO Open Doorstop; it's quite a bit slower, but nothing like
what you've described.

I have noticed that my work system, which has a Logitech serial mouse,
exhibits very slow (although not measured in seconds!) and erratic mouse
response.  At home, I have a Logitech bus mouse, and it works MUCH more
nicely.  So I would recommend ditching the serial mouse, but I suspect
there's something much more fundamental wrong with your system.

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