Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!clyde.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!umbirch2 From: umbirch2@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Robert Birch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Trouble with Sonix Message-ID: <1990Nov5.153248.28946@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Date: 5 Nov 90 15:32:48 GMT References: <1990Nov3.213601.11474@infonode.ingr.com> Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Lines: 27 In article <1990Nov3.213601.11474@infonode.ingr.com> ekins@infonode.ingr.com (Brian Ekins) writes: >Yesterday I tried to run Sonix on my 2000 and when I double click one the >icon it begins to load and then everything slows way down. The cursor >tracks very slowly and the computer is slow to react to any input. If >I let it churn away eventually Sonix will come up, but it still is running >slow and is unusable. I have not changed anything on my system since I >last used it, which was quite a while ago. I thought maybe the disk was >bad but the same thing happens with my original. The Sonix disk has >AmigaDos on the disk. I also tried booting up off another disk with >AmigaDos 1.2 and another with AmigaDos 1.3, both with the same result. >I haven't had any problem, so far, with any other software that I've run >recently. > >Any suggestions? > >+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ >| __ o Brian Ekins >| _ | /> ...uunet!ingr!b17d!ekins!brian (UUCP) >+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ I had this same problem it is due to you having your modem attached to the computer. Turn the modem on and everything will function properly. The reason it does this is Sonix seems to be looking for a midi device on the serial port. Robert Birch