On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 02:22:10PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: | 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..
That machine should do just fine. I had a PII-300 (only 64MB RAM) up until several months ago and had no performance problems with it. I got a new machine because Compaq makes bad desktops -- not expandable at all. I didn't make a big jump, only a Duron 750 with 256M RAM. I have so much memory because it was cheap (the first 128M stick was cheaper than 2 64s would have been so I went for it, the other was on sale for very little money). | 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. I bet those apps are trying to play sounds, and eventually timing out. | 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. I run GNOME just fine at home (the Duron mentioned above) with no sound card whatsoever. (PC speaker doesn't count, it only beeps) I either disabled esd or ignore the warnings about not finding /dev/dsp. I'll have to check after I get home. -D
