Preference higherPerformance in 3.9 and noise

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Thu Jul 13 22:00:21 UTC 2006


Hi mikael

Tx.
I hope your getting fun at your university. We should keep in touch.

Stef

On 13 juil. 06, at 14:39, Mikael Kindborg wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I have been annoyed by Squeak 3.9 making a disturbing high frequency
> sounding "noise" on my machine, which I speculate is related to the
> graphics card.
>
> Did some research on this and found nothing until I stumbled across
> the higherPerformance preference and studied how it was used in the
> update loop in the code. (It is on by default in 3.9)
>
> Turns out that if the preference is turned off the noise disappears.
> Now working in 3.9 is  a very pleasant experience. Downloaded the
> latest version of 3.9 today and our project works just fine.
>
> Many thanks to you are working on 3.9. As mentioned in another thread,
> duplicateAllControlAndAltKeys is great, this will make it easier to
> use Squeak for teaching (e.g. at our university) because people will
> not be irritated by inconsistent shortcut keys.
>
> Best, Micke
>




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