Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2255 mails)

[mukul <mukul.singh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rajko M. wrote:
> On Monday 09 March 2009 05:41:46 pm Mukul Singh wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just thought I would let you know my experience of installing Opensuse
> > on my new laptop...
> >
> > Installed Opensuse 11.1 (x86 32 bit) with KDE 4.1 and then updated to
> > KDE 4.2 Factory via one click install. The fact that KDE 4.1 is not
> > usable is a separate issue in itself.
> >
> > As my laptop has a NVIDIA 9200 M card, I thought that installing the
> > NVIDIA drivers "easy way", as indicated on opensuse website should be
> > enough. Did that, but no luck. Anyway, I managed to do it via the "hard
> > way". The drivers were installed successfully and things were looking up.
> >
> > The current problems on my system are :
> >
> > 1. Every time I boot my machine, the sound does not work unless I do
> > alsasound restart. 
>
> Hi Mukul,
>
> It might be PulseAudio.
>
> zypper se pulse
>
> Remove all you can see installed except libpulse0 . 
> The kdebase4 depends on it, so simple 'zypper rm pulseaudio' can have 
> unwanted 
> consequence of deinstalling half of KDE. 
>  
> Removing pulseaudio should be workaround until guys fix some problems between 
> alsa and pulseaudio. 

Hi Rajko,

Thanks for the suggestion. I did remove everything to do with pulseaudio
except libpulse0. I am still getting the same error where mplayer is
saying that the audio resource is busy...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
AVI file format detected.

[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0

[aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1

VIDEO:  [DX50]  676x278  12bpp  25.000 fps  852.6 kbps (104.1 kbyte/s)

Clip info:

 Software: VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.1 (build 2366/release)

==========================================================================

Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family

Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)

==========================================================================

==========================================================================

Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3

AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000)

Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)

==========================================================================

[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or
resource busy
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: conf.c:3009:(snd_config_update_r) Cannot access file
/etc/alsa-pulse.conf
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm.c:2205:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM
default
[AO_ALSA] Playback open error: No such file or directory

[AO ESD] esd_open_sound failed: Connection timed out

AO: [pulse] Init failed: Connection refused

[JACK] cannot open server

[AO SDL] Samplerate: 48000Hz Channels: Stereo Format s16le

E: context.c: waitpid(): No child processes

[AO SDL] Unable to open audio: No available audio device

DVB card number must be between 1 and 4

AO: [null] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)

Starting playback...

VDec: vo config request - 676 x 278 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)


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> > 2. Kpowersave does not display the battery status properly. -1% charged
> > is what I get all the time. It also does not recognise whether the
> > system is running on a battery or on mains. 
>
> Seems also known problem. I found one bug, but I've seen discussion on that 
> topic somewhere. You can help if you add your experience, including laptop 
> model:  
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182389

I will add to it.

> > 3. The plasma widgets misbehave every now and then, but I can live with
> > that.
>
> A bit more details, please. 
> Not all widgets are of the same quality ie. development status, so being 
> particular in this case is important. Which widget and what it does that you 
> don't expect, or want. 

Will provide the details in a day or two.

Thanks once again for taking time to help.

Regards
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