Re: Gnome starts very slowly

[William R Pentney <pentney cse Buffalo EDU>]

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.

- thanks, Bill