Even more FC4

I’m running out of titles for my entries. I’m also spending a lot of time getting my FC4 box where I want it to be.

I turned off “Use mmap” in the ALSA output plug-in for BMP and it no longer randomly stops playing until I pause/unpause. I think I am getting little hiccups, but I can’t say for sure whether that’s some resource issue on my PC or an actual software problem. It’s all kind of academic, though, because once I packaged bmp-docklet and found that it crashed as soon as I tried to hide BMP, I kicked BMP to the curb and installed the Dag FC3 RPMs for xmms-mp3 and xmms-status-plugin, along with XMMS from Extras. Notification area is a bit uglier now, and I can definitely now tell that XMMS doesn’t use GTK2, but at least I can play a fucking MP3.

dmesg shows some messages from agpgart saying my card is in “0x” mode. (As opposed to 1x or 2x.) I wonder what significance I should attach to that. I’ll cross that road when I start playing games on this box.

Firefox crashed a couple more times. Maybe you could say “it’s the Tab Mix extension,” but should an extension be able to crash Firefox? I guess I need to slap gdb on it.