Subject: Re: X problems/mol
From: Michael A. Peters (Moonglue@141.com )
Date: Tue Aug 08 2000 - 13:15:28 MDT
> > When running MOL (in an Xwindow) sometimes my X environment screaches
> > to a halt. Panel won't move when you click on the arrows, launchers
> > don't work, yada.
> >
> > MOL keeps running fine, and as soon as I shut down Moc OS- everything
> > I had been trying to do outside MacOS (such as open a drawer on the
> > gnome panel) happens, no more X being bogged.
> >
> > This is new behavior after installing mol-0.9.48
> > It did not happen with mol-0.9.41 (which I was running 'till about
> > two days ago)
> >
> > Beige G3, 333MHz, 192MB RAM, 256MB swap
> > mol has 96mb allocated to it in molrc
> > kernel 2.2.17pre13 with low level mol support
> > tcp/ip masquerading with ethertap (which is how you are gettin this
> > e-mail from me)
> >
> > Like I said- I used mol-0.9.41 for a LONG time, quite extensively (I
> > do all my email thru Eudora) with it sometimes running for days.
> > Never had this problem.
> >
> > With 0.9.48 I've experienced it twice now.
> >
> > Anyone know what's up? Any suggestions (other than reverting to 0.9.41)?
>
>Michael,
>
>I'm assuming that once you exit MOL, all those actions start to happen
>all at once?
>
>I had similar problems. Upgrading the esound rpms fixed it. Apparently,
>MOL is taking control (?) of esound, which those Gnome actions need in
>order to work right if Gnome sound events are turned on. You can either
>turn off Gnome sound events, or upgrade your esound package. I am using
>esound-0.2.18-0_helix_1 now, and have no problems. The sound actions no
>longer work while MOL is running, but at least I can still access all the
>panels and drawers.
Thanks- that's a little easier said than done (this linux system was
built from source, including gnome) but I can probably find the right
tarballs and do the build.
And yes- what you described is exactly what is happening.
Some of the time- but not all of the time.
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