2001-Aug-20

I reniced the netscape (and dns helper) to +10. My goal is to not have netscape take over anymore; sometimes it temporarily hangs (5 seconds to 3 minutes) my entire X session and sometimes the mouse is unusable. It appears that it fixed the problem where I scroll down with page-down or spacebar and it would jump two at a time. It fixed the hanging problem a little: on some pages that it hung, it didn't hang anymore and on some it only had jerky pauses that only lasted a second or so. A lot better than 30 seconds or more!

Then I tried "+15", but netscape became very noticably slow. And the two-page page-down started happening again. Very sluggish. So back to "+10" (only superuser can improve nice level). I'll see how this works for me.

I installed X on my old Toshiba laptop. I found a XF86Config file at http://www.netti.fi/~lane/110cs.html. I just had to change the Pointer Protocol to "Wsmouse" and Device to "/dev/wsmouse0". I also noticed that my "/" key generated a "-" and then some other key mappings were different; the XkbSymbols was set to "en_US(pc102)+fi", so I changed it to "en_US(ps101)". It is 800x600. Then I used "xev" to see what button was what: the long one at top is button one and the short one is button three. I then added "Emulate3Buttons". "xset m 1 10" seems to work fine for the mouse.

To make my laptop using slip get out on to the internet, on my workstation, I did "sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1" to make it route and did "arp -s 192.168.0.111 00:40:05:6e:04:2a pub" (IP is other end; MAC this end) so "this system will act as an ARP server, responding to requests for hostname even though the host address is not its own." (J. Franklin gave me the arp hint last October.) On the laptop, I made the default gateway be 192.168.0.110.