Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 12:37:06 -0500 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Khairil Yusof" <kaeru@pd.jaring.my> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is GNOME 2.7/2.8 stable to you? Message-ID: <opsei9v4gd9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <1095512415.1402.14.camel@wolverine.cerebro.net.my> References: <opseaqp2nq9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <1095512415.1402.14.camel@wolverine.cerebro.net.my>
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On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 21:00:15 +0800, Khairil Yusof <kaeru@pd.jaring.my> wrote: > On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 22:02 -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > >> I haven't seen many report of GNOME 2.7/2.8 for weeks/months, so I am >> wondering how does it goes with all of you? I think, this 2.7 >> development >> is the most stable version that I have tested, which I couldn't find any >> more bugs lately beside gstreamer. > > Gnome 2.8/FreeBSD-5-Beta4 > > Straw is crashing on me, when I try to click on a news feed. Don't bother Straw, it's a too buggy software and the developers don't know what they are doing with it. Use Liferea or other RSS feeder software that functions better. > Multimedia > > Gstreamer > Immediate crash on Multimedia Systems Selector, gnome volume control not > detecting any sound card etc. Do you have any dsp* in the /dev/? I noticed that if I don't build kernel with sound or don't load it as module like disable sound, then GNOME will not be stable. Few apps will crashing such as gstreamer and etc. I think, GNOME should return it as NULL or false if the sound doesn't exist. Cheers, Mezz > I'm looking into both now, and will get debug info, if I can't find out > what's causing them to crash/not work. > > Otherwise, I've not run into any problems (yet) on Gnome 2.8. -- mezz7 at cox.net - mezz at FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome at FreeBSD.org
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