Re: Gnome Freeze
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Keith O'Connell wrote:
> Jon,
>
> > This will sound weird...
>
> > Do you have a sound card installed and the "sound server" options
> > selected? If you do not have a sound card you may find that something is
> > indefinately waiting to open a non-existant sound device to play audio -
> > certainly I've had this with nautilus on various GNOME desktops so I'm
> > just guessing that it could also have this effect. Please let me know
> > whether you have audio?
>
> Strangely enough this does not sound weird. The new board I have has a
> sound chip which is supposed to be compatible with a ES1371, so I
> selected this module at install time. When I tried to play a CD under
> Ice, or WMaker, there was no sound. Fix the sound was one of the things
> I have on my "fix-later" list. Are you saying that the sound freeze is
> the cause of the Gnome desktop freeze?
>
> I am so new as to not be able to disable a sound module or re enable
> another one. I am hopeful of a fix that does not require *another* full
> installation
As I mentioned in my "me too" post, I have just now disabled the "sound
server startup" and "sound for events" in the gnome Multimedia/Sound
config. I also turned off the "play sound effects" in the
SawfishWindowManager/Sound options.
It's only been a few minutes but so far it hasn't hung!
Sound apps still work. For example, xanim, but the sound is still choppy
as it has been since I first configured this laptop. Perhaps once I fix
the sound driver or whatever is wrong such that sound works properly, then
maybe sound events won't hang sawfish (if indeed this is my problem).
Try disabling WM sound events as I describe above (for gnome itself and
your WM) and see what happens. It sounds like you are able to make it hang
at will. Mine is randomn and can take quite a bit of action before
hanging.
...RickM...
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