SuSE 8.1: Keramik Window Decoration (also: OSS sound driver)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello List, yesterday I installed version 8.1 of SuSE's distribution, and I'm still aching with it. Here is one of my still unaswered questions: Is it possible to have the keramik window decoration in SuSE 8.1? I have its keramik style installed and already click on shiny keramik buttons, but have no option to use the appropriate window decoration. I right-click on a decoration, then: Einrichten (must be "Setup"?) and Fensterdekoration ("window decoration"), but there is no keramik entry in the displayed list. I already used KDE 3.0.3 in my SuSE 8.0 installation. Installing the rpm I used there brought up the keramik entry, but not the right decoration; only some sort of ugly "standard deco". Come on, it has to work somehow, they advertise it's got the keramik window decoration included. And (I know this is the wrong list, but I'll make it short): on using xmms, I discovered that it has OSS sound drivers selected. They work fine with me, but don't they stop working after 30 days until you buy a registered version of this driver? I can select the arts driver and the visualizer field starts jerking around, but unheard; I can hear no sound. So: What's that with the default sound driver OSS and its "durability"? How can I change to arts drivers? - -- Sven Ehret - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know. Diese eMail wurde elektronisch signiert. PGP-Schlüssel auf Wunsch. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9rHFQ5dQOSMtmKR0RAl74AKCXS4CiB5Ti/YKntiLNhBKd001IpwCff4SM BVAuOjhHlnzINEcXz7/pPZ8= =KFl0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 15:49, Sven Ehret wrote:
Hello List, yesterday I installed version 8.1 of SuSE's distribution, and I'm still aching with it. Here is one of my still unaswered questions:
Is it possible to have the keramik window decoration in SuSE 8.1? I have its keramik style installed and already click on shiny keramik buttons, but have no option to use the appropriate window decoration. I right-click on a decoration, then: Einrichten (must be "Setup"?) and Fensterdekoration ("window decoration"), but there is no keramik entry in the displayed list. I already used KDE 3.0.3 in my SuSE 8.0 installation. Installing the rpm I used there brought up the keramik entry, but not the right decoration; only some sort of ugly "standard deco". Come on, it has to work somehow, they advertise it's got the keramik window decoration included.
And (I know this is the wrong list, but I'll make it short): on using xmms, I discovered that it has OSS sound drivers selected. They work fine with me, but don't they stop working after 30 days until you buy a registered version of this driver? I can select the arts driver and the visualizer field starts jerking around, but unheard; I can hear no sound. So: What's that with the default sound driver OSS and its "durability"? How can I change to arts drivers? =====================
Sven, The Keramik problem has indeed been discussed over on the regular SuSE list, so I think either would have been ok. It seems that the theme included with 8.1 has a bug and won't work. There is a new version, I believe I read from Ben Rossenberg, that you can download and fix the problem very easily. You might want to write him, if you need more details. I am thinking it was on the SuSE ftp site, but not sure. One of the real gurus here will have to help you on the OSS drivers. I know I use those sometimes in xmms in 8.0 without problems, so I would have thought they worked as well in 8.1. Patrick -- --- KMail v1.4.3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 15 October 2002 14:49, Sven Ehret wrote:
And on using xmms, I discovered that it has OSS sound drivers selected. They work fine with me, but don't they stop working after 30 days until you buy a registered version of this driver? I can select the arts driver and the visualizer field starts jerking around, but unheard; I can hear no sound. So: What's that with the default sound driver OSS and its "durability"? How can I change to arts drivers?
Can't speak to the first question, as I run 3.0.3, but OSS is built into all kernels to this point, and has been the default. I'm told that Alsa will be the default sound system in 2.5+. Arts is the 'glue' which brings sound to KDE, as I understand, and must be on. So, one option is to ensure the alsasound daemon's being started (rc) and point all your apps at Alsa if you can. On the other hand, I did this, and my punishment for compiling the newer kernel is that I've lost sound. I DLed Suse's latest km_alsa & compiled, but no sound. Admittedly I used the - --with-isapnp=yes --with-sequencer=yes switches. Don't have time to troubleshoot right now, but this worked for Igor. - -- "By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry' ..." -- Gary Larson, "The Far Side" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj2sfh4ACgkQnQ18+PFcZJsvvQCdG0znJkzvAbpThCS/xshOukjy cE8An1aSwW4/qB93G/TXQpWMbfNP8VxP =6KFO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
sven.ehret@gmx.de wrote:
And (I know this is the wrong list, but I'll make it short): on using xmms, I discovered that it has OSS sound drivers selected. They work fine with me, but don't they stop working after 30 days until you buy a registered version of this driver? I can select the arts driver and the visualizer field starts jerking around, but unheard; I can hear no sound. So: What's that with the default sound driver OSS and its "durability"? How can I change to arts drivers?
When Open Sound System went commercial, the GPLed version was forked into the kernel source tree. So the version in the kernel is not the same as the one you can buy, it is GPLed and it won't "expire". Having said that, SuSE's kernels use alsa, not OSS. alsa has an OSS emulation feature, and I suspect that is what xmms is using in your case. If you don't get any sound with the arts driver in xmms you should check the volume settings in kmix. Do you get sound in kde at all? Anders
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