Re: Gnome starts very slowly

[Michael Hall <mhall riverside org>]

On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 11:37:56AM -0400, William R Pentney wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Michael Hall wrote:
> > > I've been having a similar problem. GNOME apps load verrrry sloowwwwly.
> > > There's about a 5-10 second wait. Normal apps open fine. First I thought
> > > it was my lack of esd, but then I installed it. Then I thought it was GTK,
> > > but other GTK apps run fine.
> >   Do you have a sound card ? My machine doesn't and I started having the
> > same problem due to some of the changes in recent releases (CVS). Someone
> > suggested to make sure I had the latest 'esound' and in it's config file
> > ('/usr/local/etc/esd.conf' in my case) to change the line 'auto_spawn=1'
> > to 'auto_spawn=0'. Worked great for me, no more delays starting GNOME or
> > GNOME apps. Without the change there was a 5 sec or more delay while esd
> > probed things and tried to start before eventually failing.
> 
> This sounds like it might work. Unfortunately, I can't find an esd config
> file anywhere, nor do I know where it is looking for it on my system. Is
> there anywhere I can find some docs on esd? It has no manpage, and "-h" or
> "--help" offers nothing.

  Try 'esd-config --prefix' and then look for an 'etc' directory in the
directory it shows. 'esd-config --version' will give you the version, mine
is 0.2.12, I use CVS so I don't know what version the tarballs/RPMS are.

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Mike Hall <mhall@riverside.org>, (MH993)   -    http://www.riverside.org
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