-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 22 Nov 2001 at 21:28, Matt Ng wrote: > > If I run the (in)famous SOL.EXE, it takes 53 seconds before the program > > appears on the desktop. All the other programs I've tried seem to take at > > least this long (and sometimes several minutes) before they appear. > > I'd say there's something wrong with your configuration. Maybe your > system has a misconfigured video card? I have a P233 (running Afterstep), > and it takes about 4-5 seconds for solitaire to load. I haven't seen any other indication of a misconfigured video card. I have been running mandrake 7.2 for many months without any indication whatsoever of a misconfiguration. So I don't think that that can be the problem. I did some more timing tests. It turns out that the wait time is highly variable. 53 seconds is the fastest so far. The slowest was one that I stopped timing after three minutes, at which point the solitaire screen had still not appeared. I do see the following error every time that I try to invoke SOL.EXE: err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection Critical Section 0x400f396c wait timed out, retrying (60 sec) fs=008f Sometimes this error appears almost instantly, sometimes it is several tens of seconds before it appears. Doc Evans - ---------------------------------------------------------- D.R. Evans N7DR / G4AMJ N7DR@arrl.net A dead lawyer in a Colorado ski resort and an Australian detective who doesn't play by the rules: "All Or Nothing" is now available. See http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR/drevans.htp for details. - ---------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 Comment: Key obtainable from servers: ID 0x362912B8 iQA/AwUBO/2HT2nXrLw2KRK4EQJV5wCgnrMl3P+muu6cRLPCoK/Z08Wa6TcAoN90 Rnwus/W+uHTa6LLmVGHOjqxV =mWeb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
