March 2002 - openSUSE Multimedia - openSUSE Mailing Lists

QuickCam Express USB in SuSE 7.3
by Scott Nichols 05 Apr '02

05 Apr '02

Hello, I hope that there is someone out here that can help me out with this situation. I will try to be as brief as possible and still give the details. I have a bttv card that works fine and is using /dev/video0. So I have a QuickCam Express USB and I want to set it up on /dev/video1. I load the module mod_quickcam that came with SuSE and I see in USBView that its installed and working fine. Then I use xawtv -c /dev/video1 and the screen opens I get this error in Term: This is xawtv-3.72, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.10-4GB) /dev/video1 [v4l]: no overlay support v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway config: invalid value for input: Television valid choices for "input": "Camera" ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(0,fmt=3,size=176x144): Invalid argument Now I have been told that is normal. but when xawtv starts I get a green window with a small line at the top that is video. I can run my hand over the cam and see it in this small line in xawtv. I look in xconsole and it tells me, repeated several times: error: quickcam: frame size is incorrect! This will repeat until I turn xawtv off. I have been everywhere looking for a answer for this and how to adjust the frame size to make this work but nothing. I have been in chat's and all over the web. I even emailed SuSE about it and no help. Does anybody have any idea on how to get the problem fixed? Thanks for your time, Scott

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firewire harddrive system crash
by John C. Craig 31 Mar '02

31 Mar '02

Hi, I just installed 7.3 on a Dell Precision 530 (a large dual cpu workstation, although at present only 1 cpu is installed). I did a live update to install new patches/packages, including NVIDIA drivers. I then installed a new 2.4.16-SMP kernel. The box comes with built-in firewire, and I was able to modprobe ohci1394, and it loaded the ieee1394 and ohci1394 modules. I have a Maxtor 160GB firewire harddrive that worked with no problem under Windows2000/sp2. When I tried to load the sbp2 module to connect the harddrive, the system freezes hard (no mouse or keyboard response). Some other issues that may be relevent: the system has ultra wide SCSI, with 2 scsi drives (/dev/sda windows, /dev/sdb with Linux), and has a IDE CDRW, and these all show up under linux. /proc/scsi/scsi shows SCSI device 0 0 0 0 to be the CDRW, devices 1 0 0 0 ad 1 0 1 0 are the scsi hard drives. Any ideas as to why the system freezes when I modprobe sbp2.o? Thanks John

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Re: [suse-multimedia-e] realplayer troubles
by Joshua Lee 25 Mar '02

25 Mar '02

On Sunday 24 March 2002 12:29 pm, Frank W.Kooistra wrote: > > > Try killall -9 artsd and the realplayer will go on :) > > A rather crude way of handling the problem I agree that killall -9 is crude... Hopefully something more elegant will appear. We live in an inelegant world sometimes though. ;-) > so when play xxx.wav does not emit sound (it will eventually after no > artsd activity for 60 seconds, so not hang) > start it with > artsdsp play xxx.wav That's pretty hard to do when the file at hand is a streaming real media file, rather than a wav. > > problem with realplayer has mysteriously vanished. :-) > > Most probably no KDE sound activity for 60 seconds I don't think this was the fix, though I'll try your 60 seconds of silence approach. Another strange symptom: After finishing a stream Real Player always emits a beep, occasionally with a bit of a sound generated by another program added. -- The number of arguments is unimportant unless some of them are correct. -- Ralph Hartley

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realplayer troubles
by Joshua Lee 25 Mar '02

25 Mar '02

Realplayer (the version coming with SuSE) is hanging when I run it. I tried rming .Real* in order to reset it, but every time I start it when it's time to play a sound it hangs until I kill -9 it. It seems to do this both for network streams and for the local welcome sound file. I've been running RealPlayer for a while without any problems, I'm not sure what happened to make it have this bug. -- Weiner's Law of Libraries: There are no answers, only cross references.

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TV tuner cards
by Brian Marr 17 Mar '02

17 Mar '02

Suse 7.1 kernel 2.4.17 Can anyone suggest a well supported TV tuner card for Linux ? I have been told that Brooktrout is the chip that I need. Also I am wondering what are the issues involved in setting up a PC for TV and Internet in the Lounge ? I would like to set up a Linux box with perhaps a large monitor but am not sure if it is feasable. A cordless keyboard would be good. Are these supported under Linux ? Thanks Brian Marr

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MediaVision ProAudio 16 Card
by James Worrest 17 Mar '02

17 Mar '02

Has anyone any ideas on setting this ancient sound card up on 7.3? If there's a module I can use, I like to hear about it. Thanks. ---Jim

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3dfx
by Dale Sprankle Jr. 16 Mar '02

16 Mar '02

My 3dfx voodoo3 2000 AGP will not support quake3 and return to castle wolfenstein as it did in mandrake 8.1. It will run chromium and tux racer, but i dont want to play those. below it a dump of what 3Ddiag reports, I have tried as root also and no luck. Please help a new linux user out. Thanks! 3Ddiag version 0.369 Verifying 3D configuration: Using 3dinfo ************************************************************ Verifying 3D configuration based on XFree86 4 for 3D board "3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3 (121a@0005)": Tests for package "xf86_glx": package ... done. package files ... done. Tests for correct OpenGL libraries/GLX extensions: Symbolic Links ... done. rc.config (SCRIPT_3D=switch2xf86_glx) ... done. Test for correct XFree86 version ... done. Tests for XFree86 configuration: Config File /etc/X11/XF86Config ... done. Driver ... done. Color Depth ... done. Extensions ... done. Options ... done. ----------------------- NOTE ----------------------------------- If 3D hardware OpenGL configuration is not stable enough, you should switch back to 'Mesa Software Rendering'. You can verify this configuration with the command "3Ddiag --mesasoft". ----------------------- NOTE ----------------------------------- Checking GLU/glut runtime configuration: GLU ... done (package xf86glu) glut ... done (package mesaglut)

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Test
by Dale Sprankle Jr. 16 Mar '02

16 Mar '02

Test only, Am I hitting the list?

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Sblive! 5.1 Digital output
by Karl Påhlsson 13 Mar '02

13 Mar '02

I can't get ant sound frpm the speakers. They are connected via an Dolby Digital amplifier. In windows I solved the problem with an x-sign in a square marked "Digital output only". How can I do that in SuSe Linux 7.3? Sincerly Karl Påhlsson

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Re: [suse-multimedia-e] Zip drive and HFS
by cips 11 Mar '02

11 Mar '02

Thamks OLI and Ron! Ron, You said >Specify that a non-root user can mount the drive in /etc/fstab, like so: >/dev/hdd4 � � � /zip � �auto � �noauto,user 0 0 but its already like this; what I could do was to change 'auto' in 'hfs'; so I got two entries /dev/sda4 /zip auto noauto,user 0 0 and /dev/sda4 /zip hfs noauto,user 0 0 but this works only if I am a root user. OLI I tried while adding /dev/sda5 /zip hfs noauto,user 0 0 but of course it says that sda5 is a non valid device (and present in /dev as sda4 - I know that I have to use mknod in some way, but up to now, no success... sic!) Anyway, thx a lot! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/

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