Re: GNOME Panels run slooooow on my computer

[William R Pentney <pentney cse Buffalo EDU>]

On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, James Henstridge wrote:

Ah, yes, that would be it. Hence the "Can't connect to server port 35091".
Well, I suppose it's time to compile for me to compile for sound ...

- Bill

> Assuming that your DNS setup is correct (you would have many more problems
> if this was your problem), this is probably related to esound.  If you
> don't have a sound card, or haven't got esd setup correctly, libesd will
> try to start and connect to (and fail) the server 5 times at one second
> intervals.  This problem is currently being addressed, so should be fixed
> at some point in the future.
> 
> It may also be worth looking at the output on stderr of the panel (either
> doing a ctrl-alt-f1 or looking at a log file -- depending on how your
> system is set up).  This may give a good idea of the problem.
>