dcooley@mentorg.com (Doug Cooley) (03/02/91)
I got an LC about two weeks ago, with the stock 2Meg of Ram, and have noticed that occasionally when I run MultiFinder, my sound capability goes bye-bye. I have noticed it only when I have restarted on purpose to switch over to MF so I can run ThinkC and it's debugger. The little "Mac On" ding at the beginning is clipped off, and my init sound doesn't play. When I then go into the control panel, I can't get the alert sounds to demo, and as far as I can tell, they don't ding when they're supposed to either. I had this problem before, and I thought I'd walked all over some memory with some of my code (malloc's, fscanf args without &'s, other stupid stuff). It went away, but then I wasn't starting in MF. When I go back to the Finder, the sounds magically reappear. I suspect that this has something to do with the amount of memory in use. I thought I'd gotten rid of most of the real memory hogs (like there's something on the Mac that *isn't* a real memory hog), and I do know I'm running close to the wall on MF allocated space. Sound, especially alert sound, seems to be a pretty odd place to decide to make the cutoff. Suggestions? Etc? Also, I have to run ThinkC with less memory than normal, or I consistently get the "out of memory" bug when running. Do I need to go to 4Meg to get practical usage out of Think C 4.0? E-mail is fine. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Doug Cooley | An atheist is a man who has no invisible Mentor Graphics Corp. | means of support. dcooley@pdx.MENTOR.COM | -Fulton J. Sheen