On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Frank Preut wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 03:02:09PM +0200, Frank Preut wrote: > > hello, > > after i finally solved my sound problems in gnome, the bugger is > > gnawing at my nerves again.. now it slows down in a very haphazard > > manner.. first of all it seems to start up slower than before.. > > secondly, applications might load normally but then take minutes to shut > > down.. or they "sleep" for some 15 seconds or so before they continue.. > > the whole thing is very slow to respond most of the time.. i'm on > > testing and i recently upgraded X to the infamous 4.1-7 release and my > > kernel to 2.4.10-686 and i wonder whether anyone else is seeing this > > kind of problem.. the machine (a pII-350 with 256M) isn't the fastest on > > the planet but it was much more bearable before.. I just installed unstable freshly, including GNOME. I noticed that GNOME was *totally* useless if esd wasn't running. Nautilus would hang for 15-30 seconds at a stretch, as would Galeon. Logging out was impossible or took a very long time. Generally nothing worked properly. After compiling and installing ALSA, apt-get installing esound, and adding myself to group "audio", GNOME was clipping right along. I think that GNOME should not depend on esound to run properly, especially given that many people have no sound output device. -jwb
