Subject: Re: General Bugs In MOL
From: Christoph Ewering (mclemens.cunde@t-online.de )
Date: Fri Nov 24 2000 - 07:45:23 MST
Hello James!
James Blackburn schrieb:
> Hi,
> I'm fairly new to Linux on the PowerPC, and MOL. I've been
> using MOL for about a month now, and I've found it to be in general,
> a very good program, but not without its problems. I was wondering
> if anyone else has experienced these same problems, and whether or
> not they are fixable.
> I'm using MOL-0.9.53-2 on LinuxPPC 2000 on a Powerbook G3 Series
> laptop, and these are the problems I've encountered so far.
>
> 1. When saving a session, with F12, after restarting MOL, the time
> stays the same as it was when the session was first saved, which
> means that if I do save a session, I have to fix the time/date every
> time I run MOL.
Hm, think this I a problem that can not be fixed easyly, AFAIK Virtual
PC shows the same effect.
> 2. Every now and again, Mol will crash for no reason, and the X
> server will reboot, it tends to be in conjunction with using X
> Windows at the same time, but the results are unpredictable and
> annoying.
Are you using XFree 4.0.1? Can not help here, my mol runs rock solid
(well sort of, get ADB-Buffer overflows irregular that locks mol
completly)
> 3. There appears to be problems with the sound driver, as the sound
> always seems to play through the laptop speakers no matter what, and
> the Sound control panel seems to only affect level of the sound
> output of the computer. This leads to the interesting effect of
> having sound playing out of the laptop speakers while it is playing
> out of the sound output jack. Also, using the sound control strip
> module to change the volume, just makes the sound stop working
> altogether.
Well, this is easy:
Every sound-management is done by linux not mol.
Use the mixer to set up the volume for the internal speakers or for line
out (never used the line out)
Think there are different mixers for line out and internal speakers.
> 4. Under certain circumstances, I find it impossible to change
> consoles, and go back to Linux, ctrl-cmd-F1 doesn't work, and cmd-tab
> also doesn't work. It appears that the Mac OS is intercepting the
> commands.
>
That is right, I have the same problem, sometimes mol gets the
CTRL-APPLE-FN-F7 instead of switching to VT6
Could solve this by pressing the key rapidly or switching apps in mol or
as last resort shutdown mol :-)
> I'd greatly appreciate it if you could help me with these problems.
> Many thanks for your time,
> James
Hope this helps a little bit.
Bye,
Christoph
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