On 9/6/07, Olaf Grüttner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have problems with gnome stability and I suppose this has to do with > xorg-7.2 > > nautilus freezes, > panel freezes > a playing totem or an open epiphany keeps working > > I have to kill x11 with crt-alt-backspace > > starting the x-server after such a freezing is possible, but > gnome won't come up, just the black screen of the x-server appears. > > I am able to reproduce freezing behavior by > opening nautilus with a dir full of music files (ogg or mp3 ... doesn't > matter) > > before the freezing happens, the following feature disturb me: > > hovering with the mouse over an mp3 file starts playing the music > hovering over an ogg file does nothing
It sounds like you have sound file preview on in Nautilus. Go to Edit->Preferences in Nautilus. The last tab is Preview. Change Preview Sound Files to never. Strange, that's never worked for me. > playing an mp3 file with totem does not work > playing an ogg file with totem works It looks like you're missing the mad gstreamer plugin which is in gst-plugins-ugly and requires libmad. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
