On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:50:54 +0200, David H�rdeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The previous mails in this thread seems to suggest that all issues > have got a sufficient answer. Is anyone against closing this report?
Nope, go ahead. Just for completeness, I think most of the Gnome problems could be traced to a problem with esound -- esd would die, then any application which tried to make a noise would hang. Obviously, when poking around in the Gnome menus with sound effects enabled, this is a kind of a showstopper. But anyway, this is a known bug, #221801 and now also #246317 (for some reason tagged "experimental". I guess I will take the liberty to merge the two and remove the tag). I also think the "swallow" meta-applet is problematic but after I stopped playing around with that and learned to restart esd whenever everything hung, Gnome has been usable for me. The GX270 has an "Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)" according to lspci; I have added i810_audio (as well as sound+soundcore) to /etc/modules but I have no idea if this is exactly the right driver and/or if it would need some additional options in order to work reliably (with esd and/or generally). As far as the installer is concerned, of course, it would be nice if discover would actually discover this and add the required modules. /* era */ -- formail -s procmail <http://www.iki.fi/era/spam/ >http://www.euro.cauce.org/ cat | more | cat<http://www.iki.fi/era/unix/award.html>http://www.debian.org/
