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I also noticed some delays when for example right-clicking with mouse on links in Firefox. Overall, browsing Firefox seemed sluggish. I have seen that other users have had the same problem.
I also noticed some delays when for example right-clicking with mouse on links in Firefox. Overall, browsing Firefox seemed sluggish. I have seen that other users have had the same problem.
I also noticed some delays when for example right-clicking with mouse on links in Firefox. Overall, browsing Firefox seemed sluggish. I have seen that other users have had the same problem.
Sluggishness right now on Firefox in -current is most likely due to having to wind back optimization to -Os (or else Firefox will crash). The next Firefox major release will fix this, and then things will improve.
This update went uneventful for me. Even Pulseaudio. There's something odd, however, that could barely be regarded as an exception: Slack used to boot in 12~14 secs, and now it takes ~90 secs. The culprit seems to me to be USB detection. Otherwise, it works without any other new problems.
I report the same as poster above; I have regarded the addition of PulseAudio as largely a non-event, even given its originator's reputation. The problem I mentioned was not due to its addition, but has been a problem that plagued me in the past, even with ALSA. I anticipate that once the brouhaha dies down, everyone will regard this as something that was necessary to remain "relevant and modern", as Pat V. would put it.
I noticed that Seamonkey has crashed a few times when I tried to fill a form in Facebook, and one time when I made an entry in the address bar. I don't have that problem with the same version of SeaMonkey in 14.1.
Also, a white bar sometimes shows up on the left side of the top panel on Xfce 4.12. It blocks access to the menu from the top panel, but I can still access the menu with a right click on the desktop.
Last edited by cowlitzron; 01-14-2016 at 09:14 PM.
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I am the second one with same issues as Bindestreck. I noticed delays when browsing (Firefox, Seamonkey e.t.c.) and I got my first computer crash resulting in a cold reboot.
It seems that setting "autospawn" to "no" removed all those issues and it looks like Pulseaudio is the culprit.
I am the second one with same issues as Bindestreck. I noticed delays when browsing (Firefox, Seamonkey e.t.c.) and I got my first computer crash resulting in a cold reboot.
It seems that setting "autospawn" to "no" removed all those issues and it looks like Pulseaudio is the culprit.
Out of curiosity, what DE/window manager are you using?
I am the second one with same issues as Bindestreck. I noticed delays when browsing (Firefox, Seamonkey e.t.c.) and I got my first computer crash resulting in a cold reboot.
It seems that setting "autospawn" to "no" removed all those issues and it looks like Pulseaudio is the culprit.
Maybe you should run memcheck.
I upgraded my crappy HP-635 notebook to -current and it's quite happy with pulseaudio. In fact, using pulseaudio was the easiest that way I've gotten my freaking speakers to work on that thing. I've had no issues with Firefox or Seamonkey while using it. Then again, I've also got the flashplayer plugin from slackbuilds 14.1 installed.
Yeah, blame the distribution, not the software for being crap. Classic megalomaniac developer syndrome.
Anywhos, I'd like to know how one can run pulse only from X11/DE startup rather than boot-time as a secondary sound server to ALSA, with dmix as the primary so I can control my resources better and still have pulse able to be used as needed by the DE only.
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