Kudos, help, and a suggestion :)

[Sivan Green]

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 10:42:45 +0000, Pierre Far <pierrefar at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I started playing with Ubuntu last Thursday, and for the first time, I feel
> that this attempt at running linux solely might just work out. Great job!
> 
> Three things:
> 
> 1. For some reason, when I try to play some MP3s in Media Player, it tells
> me that /dev/dsp is busy. When I stick in a music CD, the CD Player plays it
> flawlessly.

What cd image have you tried? Try to install from a daily built image,
which usually contains all crack of the day and where I believe this
long has been fixed.
This might be an issue of a sound module loading line  that is not
present on /etc/modules. If you can find the appropriate module for
you sound card, you might try to put it there and retest.

> 
> Also, in this state, when I try to play the same MP3s using XMMS, it just
> hangs and I have to kill it with xkill.... and I can't restart it.
> 
> Further, Gaim has now lost its ability to play event sounds, although they
> are enabled for some events (like revceiving messages).
> 
> This happened after I enabled starting the sound server in gnome.
> 
> So the question is: What's going on? I think what I am trying to do
> essentially is play multiple sounds at the same time and failing. Any help
> would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 2. I installed firefox 1.0PR. It is awefully slow. When I hover over a link,
> there is a very annoying delay before the link gets underlined. Opening new
> tabs takes a while, and when I am closing all tabs to leave just the one,
> the last one takes a while to display. It's not a lack-of-hardware problem:
> I have a P4 with over 700MB RAM. Any ideas?
> 
> 3. A suggestion: Coming from a Windows background, I am used to typing
> "cd.." and not "cd .." (note the space after the 'd'). Of course, bash
> frwons upon this and says the command is not found.
> 
> To "fix" this, I edited my bash.rc file and added an alias that maps "cd.."
> to "cd ..". It worked :) Maybe the developers can add this to future
> versions to help in the transition?
> 
> Thanks again for a great distro. I am not subscribed to this list, so please
> CC me in the replies.
> 
> Pierre
> 
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Best Regards,
     Sivan Green