August 2004 - openSUSE Multimedia - openSUSE Mailing Lists

tv-card configuration in Suse 9.1
by Bert Meersma 16 Oct '04

16 Oct '04

Hi all, Yesterday I did a clean install of Suse 9.1. My tv-card (Pinnacle PCTV) did get recognized properly and I could watch television on my pc. The problem I had was that I didn't have any sound. I tried different sound settings from the configuration panel in kdetv, but it wouldn't work. This morning when I turned on my computer I couldn't watch tv anymore. The appropriate device (bt878) was no longer in the list under "Devices" in kdetv. I removed the card from the configuration center and added it again. When I tried to scan for channels I got an error message saying that /dev/video0 doesn't exist. How can I fix it and how do I get sound? Kind regards, Bert Meersma

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cdrw not found by k3b
by Conrad Schuler 03 Sep '04

03 Sep '04

OK, j said that his k3b worked fine after install and update. So I moved my computer to a fast connection, reinstalled 9.1 Professional from CD (with HD format - to make sure it was clean) and did the online update. No luck. Tried the packman k3b V 0.11.14-0 that j suggested. No luck. k3b just sits there looking and looking, the HD (it's a SCSI) shines its light brightly. Both th CD and the CDRW are available to KDE as drives. Any suggestions? Conrad SuSE's posted info in the db apply to 8.1, I am assuming they have no relevance to this problem that I am having with 9.1 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Acceptable voltage levels in Line-In and Mic inputs
by Rafael E. Herrera 31 Aug '04

31 Aug '04

Hello, What are acceptable voltage levels, max an min, for the audio inputs of a typical sound card. I'd also like to know what kind of protection a sound card may have for overloading. Thanks. -- Rafael

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9.1 + philips webcam
by Alexandre Castonguay 31 Aug '04

31 Aug '04

Hi all, This is probably old but it just happened to me. My logitech quickcam pro 3000 webcam wouldn't work after installing 9.1 when it did with earlier versions of SuSE. After a bit of research, I found out that it was the result of a conflict on the inclusion of hooks from the pwc driver to the pwcx driver into the kernel. I empathize with the creator of the driver and question the kernel maintainer's decision (see http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/). I know that the maintainers are being orthodox and that the NDA agreement with Philips is over. Whenever I see people who donate energy and time being victimized by decisions like these (removing the hooks from the pwc kernel) I wonder if they realize that the kernel maintainers are creating an abusive situation that most people use linux to get away from? Today I am a dissatisfied user. The waste of time (and frustration) in recompiling the kernel with pwc enabled is ridiculous from my point of view. Can SuSE do something about it? Please make GNU/linux a user-friendly solution for those of us who are not very advanced users and care for the 'little guy'. Thank you, Alexandre Castonguay P.S. I found a workaround to the problem here : http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=201502&h… However after recompiling, there seems to still be issues with the configuration of the V4L plugin!

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installation probs....
by ashish subhash rajhans 30 Aug '04

30 Aug '04

hi friends... i', having prob with 9.1 installation.... when i installed 9.1 ,i had xp working smoothly on my pc... but when after installation suse got working...it didnt boot into xp... it gave the error which seemed ...somewhat like... hda(0,0)... ...bootloader +1 i checked boot.conf .....n tried entering manual entry for xp... but it didnt work out.... anybody help.... thanx..

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CD and CDRW don't work properly
by Conrad Schuler 28 Aug '04

28 Aug '04

Problems setting up my CD and CDRW. I'm running SuSE 9.1, with a SCSI HD. (which complicates things. I think it puts the ide-scsi on a second scsi bus) After the install, k3b searches and searches. Finds nothing. Does not build its GUI. After I add hda=ide-scsi and hdb=ide-scsi to the System > Boot Loader Configuration > Default Section > Linux k3b will search, and will the build its GUI, but no CD or CDRW is available, and KDE complains "cannot enter folder /media/cdrom" when the cdrom icon is clicked (same for the CDRECORDER icon). I do believe that I am supposed to make link in /dev along the lines of ln -s sr0 cdrom and also one for the cdrecorder. I have randomed around and not stumbled on the magic combination. If you hold the open sesame, let me know what it is. Thanks, Conrad --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out!

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Scanner problems
by Gerry Gavigan 17 Aug '04

17 Aug '04

I hope this is the right list I have just attached a Canoscan 670U, it's detected by YaST and tests OK. YaST set it to the plustek driver on libusb Kooka didn't acknowledge I had a scanner attached Xsane didn't find it Running KDE 3.3 on updated SuSE 9.1 Pro Downloaded the latest Xsane from Packman. Made no difference. Any thoughts welcome TIA

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New Dazzle Bridge
by Tim Hanson 14 Aug '04

14 Aug '04

I picked up something interesting at a garage sale. It is a Dazzle Hollywood DV-Bridge. It has analog IEEE 1394, and S-Video in and out, and connects to the computer using IEEE 1394. From the manual, it can convert analog to DV both ways. It also appears able to pass data between devices (I suppose this means between a camera and VCR, for instance) without a computer. I'm not familiar with DV format, but I understand it is uncompressed and needs to be converted to a standard compressed (i.e., .AVI) format. My use would be to convert old VCR tapes and store them on DVD or hard drive. Does anyone have a resource they can point me to? -- If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the remaining 3%? -- Vail's Second Axiom: The amount of work to be done increases in proportion to the amount of work already completed.

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saa7134 compiling
by Edwin Quijada 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Hi~! I am using Suse9 and I have a TVCard MuchTV with saa7130hl chipset. Suse 9 found the TVCrad but it doesnot work. I download the saa7134 driver and I am trying to compile but i got error when I do make install: unresoveld symbol in module saa7134 Any clues ??/ I am using Suse9 ===== *--------------------------* * JQ Microsistemas * * www.jqmicrosistemas.com * * Edwin Quijada * * Santiago, RD * * 809-747-2787 * *--------------------------* __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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