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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Zip drive and HFS
by FromName 10 Mar '02

10 Mar '02

Does anybody know how to access/mount a zip drive (in hfs format) when in non-root status (i.e. as a normal user)? Currently I have to switch to root ('su root'), but its quite boring, as I'm not the only user of my linux box, and I don't want that other can do damages! Thx in advance, Luca __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/

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[AUDiO] Rebirth Player somewhere?
by Oliver Ob 08 Mar '02

08 Mar '02

Locations: ========== www.propellerheads.se www.steinberg.de Program: ======== ReBirth 338 1.0 ReBirth 338 2.0+ Question: ========= I have searched the entire Propellerheads' homepage and other sources. I have exchanged mails with M.Zetterquist, one of the programmers and still do. I need a KDE (or even better: CONSOLE) player for the audio RB format, I was able to locate format descriptions on the above pages, but even the programmers do not know of a Rebirth Format player (.RBS file ext) under Linux environment. ("devzone" on the HP above) Now the ?: Is there any of you capable of programming such a thing? Maybe you know one of that kind. Please PM me, I am in contact with Propheads for Linux support anyway. So far I have found similar analogue synth programs for Linux, but none of those I know does support the ingenious .RBS Format. HTH/TiA Olli -- *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ =Oliver@home= *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ I http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/Olli/olli.html I I http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/friends.html I I http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VGAP-93 I I http://home.t-online.de/home/spacecraft.portal I >>> Telek0ma iBBMS - soon back online +49.4503.TRSi1/TRSi2 <<<

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XFree86-4.2.0
by Tony Jones 06 Mar '02

06 Mar '02

Does anyone have any idea on when SuSE will, if ever, put XFree86-4.2.0 on their online update? Also, I use online update on a 56k and it seems to take upwards of 30 minutes to download the patch definitions. any ideas on how to speed that up? I use SuSE 7.3, 333mhz, GeForce MX 400 64MB, 352MB RAM. Tony Jones

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Re: [suse-multimedia-e] Suse 7.3 and MS Wireless Keyboard/Mouse
by Nicholas Bennington 06 Mar '02

06 Mar '02

Thanks for all the great feedback. Wasn't sure I'd have to recompile the kernel or since it is a Microsoft product there would be some kind of incompatibility issue. Cheers! Nick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ricardo Wagemaker" <holambra.freeserve.co.uk(a)freeserve.net> To: "Nicholas Bennington" <nickndonna(a)kscable.com>; <suse-multimedia-e(a)suse.com> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 7:27 AM Subject: RE: [suse-multimedia-e] Suse 7.3 and MS Wireless Keyboard/Mouse > Hi Nick, > > I had it working on Suse 7.2 and now on Suse 7.3 and it's just a question of > plugnplay. No problem to report. > > Rico > > >===== Original Message From "Nicholas Bennington" <nickndonna(a)kscable.com> > ===== > >Hello, > > > >I just purchased a Microsoft Wireless Keyboard and Mouse bundle. But before > >I open the box I need to know if it is difficult getting a wireless keyboard > >and mouse functioning on a SuSE 7.3 installation. Any feedback is greatly > >appreciated. > > > >Regards, > >Nick > > > > > > > > > >-- > >To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-multimedia-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com > >For additional commands send e-mail to suse-multimedia-e-help(a)suse.com >

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NVidia GeForce 2 MX400 PCI
by Lion Queen 05 Mar '02

05 Mar '02

Still having trouble with my GeForce2 MX400 PCI video board. Here are the symptoms. I try a full install of Suse 7.2 (also tried my old version of RedHat 6.1) and I get a message at boot that the video board is recognized and it seems to get everything right. The first install screen comes up and I choose the full install. A little sub window comes up showing the kernal loading and then black screen, nothing at all. I am getting a signal to the monitor because the green light stays on and the yellow blinking never occurs. I have waited up to 15 minutes, thinking that it's just working, but screen is still black. I also can't seem to press any keys that get me to something resembling a prompt. Why is this happening and is there something I can do to fix the problem? Maybe something in the BIOS. I have tried every list I can find and help site, but can't find any answers. Thanks in advance Andy _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Apache will not start...
by Christoph Starkmann 04 Mar '02

04 Mar '02

Hi! I guess that this is not quite the appropriate list, but the only SuSE-list I'm subscribed to right now. Perhaps someone can give me a hint... I was trying to install Typo3 (WCMS) and therefor ImageMagick, GDLib and Freetype. After having some problems it seems as if I have smashed the apache webserver... BUT the only errormessage I get is while booting a plain "failed". Can I get further information on what is wrong somewhere in my system? I'd really like to fix this. I already tried to uninstall and then reinstall Apache, to no extend. I reinstalled manually from the sources(config, make, make install) as well as with the package manager... I do not really want to reinstall the entire system ;| Cheers and thanxalot, Kiko ----- It's not a bug, it's a feature. christoph starkmann mailto:kiko@nfq.de http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~kiko ICQ: 100601600 -----

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Help with ALSA
by Peter Cheney 04 Mar '02

04 Mar '02

Greetings all, Could someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong or show me what to do to get sound to work using the ALSA driver? I play CD or MP3 via XMMS and no output. Searched for "sound' on sus.com and found article titled "Installing a soundsystems from scratch" and followed this with no problems. Sound on my workstation works OK with W2k and RHL7.3 but I have decided on SuSE 7.3pro due to more multi-media options. Harware detection of sound card (Intel 820) during install was OK. Here is last part of modules.conf: -- options snd-card-intel8x0 snd_index=0 alias char-major-14 off # Alsa sound support. # Warning: please don't modify comments over aliases 'snd-card-#' alias char-major-116 snd options snd snd_cards_limit=1 snd_major=116 # W60f.Kwq_E7BMZmF:82820 820 (Camino 2) Chipset AC'97 Audio Controller alias snd-card-0 snd-card-intel8x0 # YaST2: sound system dependent part # alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-11 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss -- I can delete/add the card in YaST2 and no errros. When configure sound in KDE Config, changing from "Auto Detect" to ALSA and stop/start the sound daemon I get a thump in the speakers. All help and comments would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Peter -- Peter Cheney P: +61 (7) 3002 9814 System Administrator F: +61 (7) 3002 9829 Thiess Pty Ltd M: +61 (4) 0818 6290 "I'm not what I do, I do what I am" - Miles Davis ****************** IMPORTANT - This email and any attachments may be confidential and privileged. If received in error, please contact Thiess and delete all copies. You may not rely on advice and documents received by email unless confirmed by a signed Thiess letter. Before opening or using attachments, check them for viruses and defects. Thiess' liability is limited to resupplying any affected attachments. ******************

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TV Card
by Luis Enrique Acuña Santaella 04 Mar '02

04 Mar '02

have a linux box with Suse 7.3 but I can't my TV card (Fly 98) works well. It is recognice by system but even don't work. Can you give me a hand? Thanks in advance Luis

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Re: Tarjeta TV
by Markus Hansen 03 Mar '02

03 Mar '02

Am Samstag, 2. März 2002 21:55 schrieben Sie: > Ok, Markus I am so sorry. It is spanish. May be my english is not so good > but I'll try: I have a linux box with Suse 7.3 but I can't my TV card (Fly > 98) works well. It is recognice by system but even don't work. Can you give > me a hand? > > Thanks in advance > > Luis

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Tarjeta de TV
by Luis E. Acuña Santaella 02 Mar '02

02 Mar '02

Tengo instalado Suse 7.3 y a pesar de reconocer la tarjeta de video Fly 98 no logro hacerla funcionar. Al correr alg{un programa de video la pantalla se congela..Alguna sugerencia o ayuda? Gracias de antemano Luis

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twinview
by Paul Bruning 02 Mar '02

02 Mar '02

I have a problem with my gf200mx twinview ability in suse 7.2 i want my screen on my monitor and my tv, but if i set the necassary options in the XF86config file, there is no output at the tv I've tried a lot of things but nothing seems to work has anyone a idea or experience with twinview?

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HELP! I've destoyed sound capabilities
by Saimon Moore 01 Mar '02

01 Mar '02

Hi, I'm a complete newbie when it comes to sound in linux. I have Suse 7.1 running and for a long time the sound was fine (It had been correctly configured during installation. But one day I decided to install a divX player which need updated SDL libraries. I promptly downloaded and type rpm -i SDL....rpm (i.e. newbie pressed the wrong button ;) Big mistake..I should have updated it.. (now I know ;) Ever since then, the sound on my system has completely dissapeared and I'm at a complete loss. I've looked at the sound howto but from what it says I'm missing the the sound module in the kernel, but if it had been working prior to my 'mistake' the the sound module should be there. This is the boot message... Starting sound driver: snd-card-ens1371 done Starting sound driver: off done Starting sound driver: off done but cat /dev/sndstat (As per the howto) returns.... cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device I really have no clue what to do and I don't want to re-install Suse because I have lot's of things setup that might be lost. I would REALLY appreciate it if someone could suggest what I might do to find the cause of my problem and how I might go about fixing it. The howto doesn't seem to cover this. Thanks Saimon _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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