Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1188 mails)

[Swapnil Bhartiya <swapnil.bhartiya@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/17/2012 04:44 PM, Carl Hartung wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:54:16 +0100
> Swapnil Bhartiya<swapnil.bhartiya@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>
> > On 01/17/2012 04:48 AM, Carl Hartung wrote:
> > > On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:47:40 +0100
> > > Swapnil Bhartiya<swapnil.bhartiya@xxxxxxxxx>   wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I am a strange position. I have couple of PC which I am running
> > > > openSUSE and Ubuntu. I create screen casts for my stories and under
> > > > openSUSE there is a strange situation. When I run recordmydesktop
> > > > under opneSUSE 12.1 on my Dell xps 1330 it works great. But when I
> > > > try to run it on my main PC which has Nvidia card it doesn't work.
> > > > It hangs. I tried running it on a fresh install on the same PC
> > > > without nvidia drivers still it did not run. It runs well under
> > > > Ubuntu.
> > > >
> > > > What can be the cause and what is the solution?
> > > >
> > > > Swapnil
> > >
> > > Hi Swapnil,
> > >
> > > Are you running openSUSE on one of the 'couple of PCs' and Ubuntu on
> > > the other? Or are you running openSUSE *and* Ubuntu on each?
> >
> > All machines are dual boot -- running openSUSE 12.1 *and* Ubuntu
> > 11.10.
> >
> > > Also, you're saying 'recordmydesktop' works great under openSUSE
> > > 12.1 on the Dell, but not on your 'main PC' with or without the
> > > proprietary nVidia drivers installed.
> > >
> > > The point you're making I guess is 'recordmydesktop' appears to run
> > > fine under 12.1, as you've confirmed on the Dell system, but there
> > > is something different happening on your 'main PC' and this is what
> > > you'd like help troubleshooting.
> >
> > Yes. I in fact did a fresh install last night (again) on the main PC
> > (Intel i5, Nvidia GTX 470) to see if there are no proprietary drivers
> > it may work; but it did not. I have dual monitor set-up for main PC
> > but I also disabled the second monitor. Since recordmydesktop is not
> > in repos I have to download it manually from openSUSE site -- first I
> > install recordmydesktop and then gtk-recordmydesktop (I did the same
> > for my Dell PC). Is this method correct.
> >
> > Recordmydesktop starts and after selecting the area to record and
> > hitting the record button it becomes responsiven. When I hit the stop
> > recording button. It just hangs. So I have to log out by
> > Ctrl+Alt+Delete which also kills all unsaved work.
> >
> > > Assuming you're describing 'recordmydesktop' and not the entire PC
> > > when you say "it hangs" I would suggest opening a terminal on your
> > > 'main PC' and, as a normal user try launching 'recordmydesktop'
> > > from the commandline. Look for any error messages to post back here
> > > and we'll take a look.
> >
> > In a way whole PC hangs as the frame of rmd (recordmydesktop) which
> > means I can't trigger the activities or launcher or any app so the
> > whole PC is non-responsive.
> >
> > Here is terminal output:
> >
> > muktware@linux-n6c9:~>  recordmydesktop
> > Initial recording window is set to:
> > X:0   Y:0    Width:1920    Height:1080
> > Adjusted recording window is set to:
> > X:0   Y:4    Width:1920    Height:1072
> > Your window manager appears to be Mutter
> >
> >
> > Detected compositing window manager.
> > Reverting to full screen capture at every frame.
> > To disable this check run with --no-wm-check
> > (though that is not advised, since it will probably produce faulty
> > results).
> >
> > Initializing...
> > Buffer size adjusted to 4096 from 4096 frames.
> > Opened PCM device hw:0,0
> > Playback frequency 22050Hz is not available...
> > Using 44100Hz instead.
> > Recording on device hw:0,0 is set to:
> > 2 channels at 44100Hz
> > Capturing!
> > An error occured while reading sound data:
> >    Input/output error
> > ^C
> > *********************************************
> >
> > Cached 3 MB, from 1688 MB that were received.
> > Average cache compression ratio: 99.8 %
> >
> > *********************************************
> > Saved 215 frames in a total of 215 requests
> > Shutting down..An error occured while reading sound data:
> >    Input/output error
> >
> > **
> >
> > I tried disabling audio from the sound settings as well.
> >
> >
> > Also here I have uploaded a video of the problem,
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkN4KdGlgsg&feature=plcp&context=C3c8fd1dUDOEgsToPDskILOUSeq6GSH1D1s7FbUzk6
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Swapnil
>
> I don't know exactly what's going on here, but this might be a place
> to start:
>
> - - - - - 8<  - - - - -
> An error occured while reading sound data:
>    Input/output error
> ^C
> *********************************************
>
> Cached 3 MB, from 1688 MB that were received.
> Average cache compression ratio: 99.8 %
> - - - - - 8<  - - - - -
>
> It looks like rmd (recordmydesktop) is loading and running properly up
> until you click 'record'. Here it reports caching 3 MB out of ~ 1.6 GB
> received. I think your settings are off somewhere causing bandwidth to
> choke on the data. At least that's my first impression.
>
> You didn't say if rmd runs okay on the same system under Ubuntu. If it
> does, I'd look for differences in the rmd config&/or default recording
> settings under each for clues.

Yes. RMD runs fine on the same machine under Ubuntu. I will appreciate 
your help as I want to use openSUSE full time :-)

Swapnil

> Carl

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