Preference higherPerformance in 3.9 and noise

Mikael Kindborg mikael.kindborg at gmail.com
Mon Jul 17 23:10:40 UTC 2006


Hi, good to hear from you, perhaps we could do an Erasmus exchange at
some point? (Should explain that Erasmus is a European union
university teacher excange program, perhaps more people in Europe
would be interested in this?)
Best, Micke

On 7/14/06, stéphane ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
> 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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