helixgnome makes mp3 run hyperfast

[irlandes]

Last spring, I took LinuxPPC to a man in Mexico City. I just got a mail from him stating that when he installed helixgnome, mp3 runs hyper fast. I know little about Mac's, and sure don't even know what is helixgnome. But, I thought I'd post the problem for him, and see if anyone has any ideas, which I will then pass on to him.

Thanks in any case.

Oh, by the way, he did say Navigator works okay on the net, but it 'blows up' a lot. Bet that's not news to anyone, based on comments on the Intel forums.

[gqgreg]

Helixgnome is a distribution of the gnome desktop manager. I installed it on my Mandrake 7 system, and it has been crashing for no apparent reason. It appears to be buggy (at least for that version of it). Here is their website: http://www.helixcode.com/. I don't know anything about mp3s playing back too fast, but I imagine its a problem with the helix distribution (a shame, because the helix desktop is soooo nice :^] ).

[irlandes]

I got a note from my buddy in Mexico City. He finally solved the fast MP3 problem. I am pasting the note, except for personal stuff, so you can read it yourself. His English is much better than my Spanish.

"Hello Mr Bruce: Thanks for give me an answer... yesterday i solve the
problem... configuring the hardware system... and the master management
sound...now the xmms works absolutely good... but now the screen saver can´t
start...jajajajajaja... now I´m knowing better the linux ppc...so ahope solve
this little fail to... have a good time and take care..."

[alfredo]

Tell him to turn off Java in Netscape, and to put the disk cache to zero. N4.7.3 runs reasonably well for me, and so does M18.

[irlandes]

Originally posted by alfredo:
Tell him to turn off Java in Netscape, and to put the disk cache to zero. N4.7.3 runs reasonably well for me, and so does M18.

I will pass it on. Thanks a lot!