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From: ssd@sugar.hackercorp.com (Scott Denham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Trouble with Sonix
Summary: Sonix lockup, wierd behaviour, serial port
Message-ID: <6994@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 6 Nov 90 05:46:20 GMT
References: <1990Nov3.213601.11474@infonode.ingr.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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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
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 


 I remember having a very similar problem while repairing my A2000 after
an errant lighting bolt got into my modem. After replacing the cooked 
CIA chips, the system ran fine except for this symptom in Sonix. Turns out
one of the RS-232 chips was also cooked, and it was holding one of the 
serial port status lines active (I forget which). Apparently Sonix looks
there for MIDI stuff whenever it is running; as soon as I replaced the
fried line receiver the problem dissapeared. What do you have plugged into
your serial port? You might want to try removing in and seeing if that
clears up your problem. 
 Scott Denham
  Houston, Tx
   ssd@sugar.hackercorp.com