November 2004 - openSUSE Multimedia - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SuSE 9.0 - sound problem - /dev/dsp0 busy
by Thomas F. Bechteler 09 Nov '04

09 Nov '04

Dear Reader! I am using SuSE 9.0 pro out of the box, I have an onboard soundchip and the Hoontech DSP 24 Value soundcard. Problem: When I am using recording software ("audacity" or "snd") the sound is being recorded. However, when playing back and the playback is finished (either by pressing stop or the sound file is simply finished) the programs are crashing (they close). After this, there is no sound at all! And I could not get it back, even by playing around with YaST. Opening the recording software and trying to play back results then in an immediate crash. The program "snd" gave me fortunately at least this message: open read /dev/dsp0: Device or resource busy [audio.c[1956] linux_audio_open_with_error] With my limited knowledge in Linux I could only get around by rebooting the computer. During the shutdown the screen showed me the following information (I give just an excerpt): snd-mixer: Device or resource busy ... snd-* Device or resource busy failed After rebooting the sound was there. (Just a remark: after crashing the audio it is not possible to restart the X-server by "ctrl-alt-backspace". The computer hangs, no GUI, and also to switch to any console is of no use. I only could brutally switch off the computer.) Also switching off the "arts" was of no use ... What is the reason that the device is busy? And how can I solve this problem? Thanks for any hints and comments Cordially Thomas

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zapdvb & a Typhoon DVB card.
by Wolfgang Grinfeld 07 Nov '04

07 Nov '04

I thought you might be in using zapdvb + Typhoon + suse. Steps involved - download SUSE 9.1 personal. - install SUS9.1 without update to the latest version (required for compatibiity with the source) - download suse 9.1 source - download packages: gcc,make,... - use cvs extract of 2004-05-01 for the linuxtv driver (this version has changes for a Typhoon card) - rebuild the kernel (no need to install it) - build the driver - use the insmod.sh of the driver (not modprobe) - download the zapdvb rpm and install - run it There might be a better/faster way, but the above works. _________________________________________________________________ Want to block unwanted pop-ups? Download the free MSN Toolbar now! http://toolbar.msn.co.uk/

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Re: [suse-multimedia-e] WINDOWS MEDIA TEST
by Jim Worrest 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 11:59 , Paul Ryan <Paul_Ryan(a)gmx.net> sent: >Hello I have the problem that when I try to watch a video stream at >www.cmt.com I get the message > >" WINDOWS MEDIA TEST > >We have detected your browser does not have the required Windows Media 9 >plug-in to play this video." > >This is very irritating because it is one of the main functions that I >use in Internet or computer. Extremely irritating because I don't even >come far enough to cut and paste the link into a video application. > >I have tried installing and reinstalling Mozilla,Kaffeine,Xine and >Totem. > >I also have Mplayer with the plugin installed. > >Any Hints > >Thank You >Paul Ryan > > >-- >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 > > Did you use apt-get to get mplayer?, if you didn't do that you may be missing some dependencies. Also, Linux has to catch up with all the changes that Microsoft throws out there, and it may not have caught up with the latest changes in Windows Media Player. ---Jim --- Msg sent via DIT Online WebMail http://mail.ditol.com

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WINDOWS MEDIA TEST
by Paul Ryan 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

Hello I have the problem that when I try to watch a video stream at www.cmt.com I get the message " WINDOWS MEDIA TEST We have detected your browser does not have the required Windows Media 9 plug-in to play this video." This is very irritating because it is one of the main functions that I use in Internet or computer. Extremely irritating because I don't even come far enough to cut and paste the link into a video application. I have tried installing and reinstalling Mozilla,Kaffeine,Xine and Totem. I also have Mplayer with the plugin installed. Any Hints Thank You Paul Ryan

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Hello Everyone
by ROB 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

I'm new here and newbie with SusE 9.1 got it today first time using suse and wanting to learn about multimedia in suse 9.1 Thanks

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Suse 9.1 and DVB_TTUSB_BUDGET
by David Thompson 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Hello: I have used Suse for many years at home and have just upgraded to SuSE 9.1 in anticipation of upgrading all of our servers at work to the Corporate version of 9.1 or new 9.2 to take advantage of the 2.6 kernel. My family and I watch all our Television on the Computer and have successfully used our Nova-T (TTUSB) device for over a couple of years now in Suse pre 9.1 using the dvb-kernel drivers on a 2.4 kernel. Since upgrading to Suse 9.1 however, I have had many problems. 1. The kernel that comes with the distro (download) the built in DVB drivers, dvb_ttusb_budget and alps_tdmb7, did not work .. or at least the frontend alps_tdmb7 did not work. 2. After updating the kernel to 2.6.5 -7.111 the built in drivers did work and I was able to TZAP to the channels .. however I was not able to watch the DVB stream in xine or mplayer. 3. The reason for this was an error in dmesg: ttusb_start_iso_xfer: failed urb submission (0: err = -22)! 4. I wrote a posting on the linuxdvb site and downloaded and installed the dvb-kernel CVS drivers which had fixed this issue for some people, adding the line urb->interval = 1; after urb->transfer_flags = URB_ISO_ASAP; in the ttusb_start_iso_xfer function. 5. However, this did not fix the issue. I still get the failed urb submission error. 6. I just received an e-mail from one of the developers of the dvb-kernel drivers that : > you don't really have a choice and need > to start to debug > the USB host driver. Try to find out at which point > in the kernel USB 7. However, I am not sure how to do this... and also since the technotrend / hauppauge ttusb is the most popular DVB-T device, I figured someone must have had this problem in SuSE 9.1 thus far and thought I would write you. 8. The only other pecularlity I can think of is that I am also using an analogue tv card wintv card .. and when I first loaded the 2.6.5-7.111 kernel it tried to load the dvb_bt8** frontend driver which messed up my analogue reception. I had to change the dvb file in init.d to only load the alps_tdmb7 frontend which I have always used successfully and is the right one for my ttusb device. 9. If we can't get this to work .. how difficult is it to go back to a 2.4 * kernel in Suse 9.1 .. as I wold hate to have to go through all this work and then go back to a previous distro. And also the whole point of this was to test 9.1 before introducing it at work. Thanks for your help. David ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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