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From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] rio and acme scrolling
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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 09:33:59 -0500
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blstuart@bellsouth.net wrote:

>rsc@swtch.com (Russ Cox) wrote:
>  
>
>>When you get the weird scrolling, try:
>>
>>date; sleep 10; date
>>
>>and see if the clock is running at the right speed.
>>Look at a real clock too.  Sleep 10 is what will
>>be too fast if the clock is bogus.  The date may
>>actually be accurate, thanks to timesync.
>>    
>>
>
>I've seen the same sort of thing with the new
>build of acme on Linux.  The really wierd thing
>is that I've seen a similar thing in Inferno
>running hosted in Linux.  Occationally, on
>a single click, it takes off as if I were holding
>it, and only stops if I move the mouse out of
>the scroll bar.
>  
>

I've seen this under FreeBSD under VMware.  I think
it's an XFree86 bug.  When I stopped using VMware
and FreeBSD, the problem went away, but I'm sure
I'm also running a different version of XFree86.