Subject: Re: mol and gnome problem
phandel@cise.ufl.edu
Date: Wed Jun 14 2000 - 19:05:37 MDT
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, C. Michael McCallum wrote:
> * Stephen Judd (stephen@cyberelves.co.nz) [000614 15:26]:
[snip]
> > I have an odd problem. If I launch any gnome application, it blocks
> > while mol is running. "ps aux" shows the process as sleeping. As soon as
> > mol has stopped, all the gnome apps I have launched since mol started
> > suddenly appear. Other X apps are unaffected. If I launch too many apps,
> > gnome-panel locks up until mol stops.
[snip]
> I don't have any ideas, but I posted the same problem last week, without
> any replies. I know this doesn't really help, but maybe it will add
> impetus....
This happens because two processes cannot play sound simultaneously. All
processes that wish to play sound while sound is being played must block
and wait until the first process ceases.
There are various software mixing solutions (such as esound) which attempt
to solve this problem, but the applications need to support them
explicitly.
If you'd like to try out esound, stay away from the 0.2.18 rpms on
ftp.linuxppc.org, use the 17_helix ones instead.
Thanks,
Peter
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