Overall usability in 1.4?

[Stefan Krüger]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :Hi all,
> :
> :the timer problems I was having with DFly forced me to install and use FBSD
> :5.4 to get some things done.  Blech.  I see though that Matt seems to have
> :tracked the problem down, and that means I'm ready to return to the fold.
> :Nice going Matt!  And thanks, Stefan, for helping pinpoint the issue.
> :
> :I fooled around a bit with pkgsrc before wiping out DFly, but I need to make
> :sure of a couple of things, to the degree possible.  Do we prefer xorg or
> :XFree86 these days?  Does the installation run pretty cleanly?  I remember
> :with the old dfports system I always had issues.
> :
> :Also, how can I check which ports are working well?  I need Firefox, which is
> :pretty common, but sbcl Lisp might not be.
> :
> :Jonathon McKitrick
> 
>     I don't know if its the same problem, have your timer issues gone away
>     with the recent fixes?
yes I also think they're unrelated, so test carefully

another thing is that I still have time issues :-( I don't know what
exectly happens but everythings seems to freeze (even the clock) but as
soon as I press a key everything works again...