Subject: Re: Some FAQs
From: Keary Suska (hierophant@pcisys.net)
Date: Wed Dec 05 2001 - 17:08:53 MST
Here's one: How can I get the command key to work when starting MOL in an X
window?
Keary Suska
Esoteritech, Inc.
"Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"
> From: Quentin Mason <quentin-mason@cornell.edu>
> Reply-To: mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 18:28:15 -0500 (EST)
> To: mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
> Cc: megabight@mac.com
> Subject: Re: Some FAQs
>
>
> Hi,
>
>> * Whenever I startmol, I get the startup chime, but I ALWAYS have to
>> go into the sound control panel and reset my sound output to
>> mol-audio. Is there anyway to get it to remember my sound setting?
> No -- try location manager. The chime is independent of sound settings,
> and can be explicitly disabled in /etc/molrc.
>
>> * When I mount a CD and stick a read-only entry for it in /etc/molrc,
>> the CD comes up on the desktop but I can't play it with itunes or
>> Apple CDPlayer. Game CDs also mount, but arent recognized as CDs that
>> the games can find so they wont start :(
>
> It is being advertised to MOL as a hard disk, not a CD. There is
> currently no support for mounting/unmounting stuff on-the-fly.
>
>> * Can I get mol to start OS X ??
> Not yet. Apparently Darwin may have worked at one point.
>
>> * When MolAudio is in use, it squelches all the sounds from Linux. Is
>> there a way to get it to share??
> There was a patch to use ESD; I am not sure of the current status.
>
>> * Is DVD playback in the future for mol??
> Why? use xine in Linux -- MOL does not have accelerated graphics => need
> 10x faster computer to decode and draw in software.
>
>> * Any clue why VirtualPC pukes in mol??
>
> It is trying to access underpants of MacOS and MOL has already changed
> them. VrtualPC may be working on this.
>
>> * Is there a cure for MOL addiction???
> Yes. Work ;(
>
>> Thanks in advance - MOL ROCKS!!!!!
> Thank Samuel (a donation?)
>
> MOL is not yet ready to run all the Multimedia of MacOS inside linux.
> Small Quicktime video/audio is the only multimedia reason to fire up MOL
> as Linux has no decent Quicktime player. There is absolutely no point to
> running music CD's or hard-disk mp3's from MacOS as Linux already does
> this as well if not better. Turn off the sound in MacOS [change setting
> in /etc/molrc] and listen to your music from Linux. In terms of games or
> DVDs again they need accelerated graphics to really look good and that is
> not on the cards right now.
>
> Q.
>
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