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On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 00:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello and thank you for reviewing my post...
>
> I recently installed LM8 as a companion o/s (dual-boot) on my
> machine. Once the boot selection is made, Linux boots flawlessly and
> presents the X terminal, where you identify the user and select your
> GUI.
>
> Oddly enough, there are vast performance differences between my two
> preferred GUI's...KDE starts and runs perfectly each time and has
> proven to be perfectly stable; Gnome, on the other hand, starts off
> normally but only lasts a short time before it freezes up the
> machine and requires the dreaded "reset" reboot. (The keyboard locks
> up as well, so Cntrl-Alt-Bkspc doesn't work either).
This is definitely odd. I myself have always found GNOME to be
rock-solid, and I've been using it since the 1.0.x days well over one
and a half years ago. KDE isn't bad, but I've had quite a few problems
with the 2.x series. KDE 2.0 wasn't usable for me at all. Other
people, like yourself, have it the other way round: GNOME is unstable
and KDE is great.
> My hunch is
> that it is related to the sound card, because if I disable sounds,
> the problem never happens. So, this leads me to believe there is a
> question of priority for the sound card...KDE seems to give the
> sound card a higher priority and thus is not affected, but my
> question is, how do you tell Gnome to give the sound card a higher
> priority, so that other devices won't interfere and freeze up the
> machine? (If that is indeed the problem)
Yes, it does appear to be a sound problem. AFAIK, EsounD (the sound
server for GNOME) isn't capable of priority-setting. It's for reasons
like this that GNOME is dumping EsounD for their 2.0 release (due in
December). They haven't nominated a successor as of yet, but ArtsD
(KDE's sound server) looks a likely candidate.
Maybe we can help more if you tell us the type of sound hardware you
have.
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
"There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
-- Jeremy S. Anderson
