January 2005 - openSUSE Multimedia - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [suse-multimedia-e] NVIDIA driver problem
by Adalberto Castelo 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

On Sunday 30 January 2005 17:16, joe wrote: > Interesting - I've upgraded to the 6629 driver on several linux systems > (all suse pro 9.2) and never patched any of them. The thread you > referenced seems to indicate that there is a problem running windows > games under wine, without the patches, which would explain why I had no > problems: Follow the thread a little further and you'll see that it is not related to cedega alone. In fact it affects ut2004 for example. > > I run only native linux games (ut2004, quake 3, doom3 etc) Me too, mostly. I still enjoy fallout 2 and baldur's gate under wine, though. Cheers > > Best Regards, > > Joe

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Mplayer, no video, weird bar across the top of the screen
by Mitch Martinez 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

I'm having a problem with mplayer, I was able to get it to run on SUSE 9.1, but having problem on 9.2, whats the diff ? When I run mplayer I get a hazy bar across the top of my screen, it looks like it's trying to play a video, but it's too spread out and looks like horizontal control went haywire... Machine is : MB: ASUS K8V Deluxe CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ MEM: 1540984 kB VID: G-Force FX5900 128 MB MON: ViewSonic P810 OS: SUSE 9.2 Pro The Following is the result of running mplayer: MPlayer dev-CVS-050121-23:03-3.3.4 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 64 Clawhammer (Family: 8, Stepping: 8) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes Warning unknown option stop_xscreensaver at line 4 Setting up LIRC support... mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: Permission denied Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing ./tripping.mpg. MPEG-PS file format detected. VIDEO: MPEG1 352x240 (aspect 1) 29.970 fps 700.0 kbps (87.5 kbyte/s) ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough VDec: vo config request - 352 x 240 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES) Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec. VDecoder init failed :( Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2 (libmpeg2)) ========================================================================== Audio: no sound Opening video filter: [scale] VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. SwScaler: using unscaled Planar YV12 -> BGR 16-bit special converter VO: [fbdev] 352x240 => 352x240 BGR 16-bit New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong. Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf). subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.

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Re: [suse-multimedia-e] NVIDIA driver problem
by Bogi Mouritsen 30 Jan '05

30 Jan '05

Thanks all. My problem is solved. Getting the kernel and source in sync then setting all up in sax2 when in init 3 proved to solve it at last. Some of the other stunts along the way, may have contributed - I couldn't tell. Thanks again. :)Bogi Carsten Koch wrote: > Bogi Mouritsen wrote: > >> Thanks that brought me a bit further. Unfortunantly I'm not quite >> there yet. >> >> I removed kernel sources, installed them again, ran YOU and rebooted. >> I then followed the instructions stated below (make cloneconfig, make >> prepare-all, init 3 and ran the nvidia-installer again) which brought >> me to a position where the installer warned me that "rivafb" was >> included as a loadable module and that that might cause conflicts. I >> proceeded and the installer terminated cleanly. I ran Sax2 which >> detected me NVidia 0x0281 card. I started X and proceeded to Sax2 in >> graphical mode to enable 3D acceleration. I ran the "test" which gave >> the following: >> X Server test failed >> NVIDIA(0): *** aborting *** >> Screen(s) found, but none have usable configuration >> >> What's next? > > > > Do a > init 3 > and > modprobe nvidia > manually as root. > > Does it work? > Does lsmod report the nvidia module? > Start sax2 again (in the console window under runlevel 3) > and enable 3D acceleration. > > Carsten.

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NVIDIA driver problem
by Bogi Mouritsen 30 Jan '05

30 Jan '05

Hi, I have an NVIVIA Geforce 4000 (as far as I remember), and I have had trouble with it through several SuSE installations. However I have always managed to get it to work and it works just peachy when I need to use Windows. I just installed 9.2 and to no surprise YOU couldn't install the driver so I tried to install it using the .run file from nvidia-com. After going into "init 3" this is what I get: 1. My system does not find a precompiled kernel interface, so it tries to download one from nvidia.com. There is no one there either. 2. When trying to make a kernel interface I get an error stating that the kernel header file /lib/modules/2.6.8-24.11-default/build/include/linux/kernel.h was not found. This could be due to kernel-src not being installed, so I installed the additional package. 3. Tried again and after additional errors I found that kernel.h was in another directory. 4. ran "sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run --kernel-source-path /usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24/include". 5. Finally I get: ERROR: unable to build NVIDIA kernel module. Any suggestions? :)Bogi

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Re: [suse-multimedia-e] NVIDIA driver problem
by j.harbourne＠ntlworld.com 30 Jan '05

30 Jan '05

On Sunday 30 Jan 2005 12:31, Bogi Mouritsen wrote: > >I've found that coping the kernel header over to where nvidia expect it > > works for me I've used this trick on both 9.1 & 9.2 > > > >Jonothan > > Just a simpe cp -r /usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24/* > /lib/modules/2.6.8-24.11-default/build/ ?? > > :)Bogi You don't even need to copy it all just a simple cp usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.11/include/linux/kernel.h /lib/modules/2.6.8-24.11-default/build/include/linux should work Jonothan

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Re: [suse-multimedia-e] NVIDIA driver problem
by Bogi Mouritsen 30 Jan '05

30 Jan '05

Hi Carsten, My output looks similar to yours, but there are some differences (.11) and I do not have the .config file. Should I reinstall the kernel-source package? Note, first I installes 9.2 as a fresh install with format and everything, then I installed the source package using yast, then I removed the source package and installed it again. Between every step I tried installing the NVIDIA driver. Another comment: I think there is something completely wrong with my machine because I have other problems too. I cant get my onboard sound device working (it works when booting into windows). When I had 9.1 video players only worked if I was root. Anyway, here is the output: zacharias:~ # l /usr/src total 1 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 240 Jan 28 19:15 ./ drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 344 Jan 28 00:00 ../ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jan 28 19:15 linux -> linux-2.6.8-24/ drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 712 Jan 28 19:15 linux-2.6.8-24/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 Oct 21 17:27 linux-2.6.8-24-obj/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 Jan 28 01:30 linux-2.6.8-24.11-obj/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jan 28 19:15 linux-obj -> linux-2.6.8-24-obj/ drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 168 Jan 28 00:03 packages/ zacharias:~ # l /lib/modules/ total 4 drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 280 Jan 28 19:24 ./ drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 3256 Jan 28 01:31 ../ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 96 Jan 28 19:24 2.6.8-24-bigsmp/ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 96 Jan 28 01:31 2.6.8-24-default/ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 96 Jan 28 19:24 2.6.8-24-smp/ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 504 Jan 29 01:33 2.6.8-24.11-default/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Jan 14 20:54 2.6.8-override-default/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 88 Jan 28 19:24 precompiled/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 104 Oct 21 17:27 scripts/ zacharias:~ # ls -la /usr/src/linux linux/ linux-2.6.8-24-obj/ linux-obj/ linux-2.6.8-24/ linux-2.6.8-24.11-obj/ zacharias:~ # ls -la /usr/src/linux/ total 246 drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 712 Jan 28 19:15 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 240 Jan 28 19:15 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18691 Aug 14 07:36 COPYING -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 87978 Oct 6 12:47 CREDITS drwxr-xr-x 47 root root 4384 Jan 28 19:14 Documentation -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 54294 Oct 6 12:47 MAINTAINERS -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42666 Oct 6 12:47 Makefile -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2091 Oct 6 11:24 Makefile.suse -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13970 Aug 14 07:37 README lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 Jan 28 19:14 README.SUSE -> ../../share/doc/packages/kernel-source/README.SUSE -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2815 Aug 14 07:36 REPORTING-BUGS drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 560 Jan 28 19:14 arch drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 896 Jan 28 19:14 crypto drwxr-xr-x 47 root root 1208 Jan 28 19:14 drivers drwxr-xr-x 56 root root 2968 Jan 28 19:14 fs drwxr-xr-x 35 root root 944 Jan 30 10:53 include drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 392 Jan 28 19:14 init drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 304 Jan 28 19:14 ipc drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 312 Jan 28 19:14 kdb drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1216 Jan 28 19:14 kernel drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 960 Jan 28 19:14 lib drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1120 Jan 28 19:14 mm drwxr-xr-x 32 root root 968 Jan 28 19:14 net drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 Jan 28 19:14 rpmify drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 1280 Jan 28 19:15 scripts drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 272 Jan 28 19:15 security drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 496 Jan 28 19:15 sound drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 136 Jan 28 19:15 usr zacharias:~ # :)Bogi Carsten Koch wrote: > Bogi Mouritsen wrote: > >> Thanks for the quick reply. >> >> I need to use the --kernel-source parameter since my system has the >> kernel-source placed outside the path and the nvidia-installer does >> not find it. >> I did not state the 'include' directory. I was writing from memory. >> >> >> Anyway, I did the following now: >> 1. init 3 >> 2. "sh NVIDIA.... --extract-only" >> 3. cd <that-directory> >> 4. make install >> >> This is the output I get: >> If you are using Linux kernel 2.4 .... >> If you are using Linux kernel 2.6, please make sure you have >> configured kernel sources matching your kernel installed on your >> system. If you specified a separate output directory using either >> "KBUILD_OUTPUT ..... >> >> *** Unable to determine the target kernel version *** >> make[1]: *** [select_makefile] Error 1 >> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/NVIDIA....` >> make: *** [kernel_module_install] Error 2 >> >> That is it! >> Any suggestions please? > > > The above message is issued by the script > NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1/usr/src/nv/conftest.sh > when it tries to determine which Makefile to use. > > The most likely reason for the message seems to be that > it did not find a Makefile or a ".config" file in your > kernel source tree. > > Run > uname -r > and > ls -l /usr/src > and > ls -l /lib/modules > > uname -r should output something like > 2.6.8-24.11-default > and > ls -l /usr/src > should output something like > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jan 23 18:44 linux -> linux-2.6.8-24.11 > drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Jan 23 18:43 linux-2.6.8-24.11 > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 17 Jan 14 16:35 linux-2.6.8-24.11-obj > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jan 23 18:44 linux-obj -> linux-2.6.8-24.11-obj > drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 67 Nov 6 14:31 packages > > Note the matching names (version 2.6.8-24.11-default and directory > linux-2.6.8-24.11) > and the link linux -> linux-2.6.8-24.11! > > /usr/src/linux should contain a Makefile and a .config file. > > and > ls -l /lib/modules > should output something like > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 25 21:30 2.6.8-24.11-default > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 6 Jan 14 20:54 2.6.8-override-default > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 32 Jan 23 18:42 precompiled > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 35 Jan 14 20:53 scripts > > Note the matching names again (version 2.6.8-24.11-default and > directory 2.6.8-24.11-default)! > > If any of the above is not right, I suggest you reinstall your > kernel-source package and run a Yast Online Update after that. > > Carsten. > > >

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Re: [suse-multimedia-e] NVIDIA driver problem
by Bogi Mouritsen 30 Jan '05

30 Jan '05

Thanks for the quick reply. I need to use the --kernel-source parameter since my system has the kernel-source placed outside the path and the nvidia-installer does not find it. I did not state the 'include' directory. I was writing from memory. Anyway, I did the following now: 1. init 3 2. "sh NVIDIA.... --extract-only" 3. cd <that-directory> 4. make install This is the output I get: If you are using Linux kernel 2.4 .... If you are using Linux kernel 2.6, please make sure you have configured kernel sources matching your kernel installed on your system. If you specified a separate output directory using either "KBUILD_OUTPUT ..... *** Unable to determine the target kernel version *** make[1]: *** [select_makefile] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/NVIDIA....` make: *** [kernel_module_install] Error 2 That is it! Any suggestions please? :)Bogi Carsten Koch wrote: > Bogi Mouritsen wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have an NVIVIA Geforce 4000 (as far as I remember), and I have had >> trouble with it through several SuSE installations. However I have >> always managed to get it to work and it works just peachy when I need >> to use Windows. >> >> I just installed 9.2 and to no surprise YOU couldn't install the >> driver so I tried to install it using the .run file from nvidia-com. >> After going into "init 3" this is what I get: >> 1. My system does not find a precompiled kernel interface, so it >> tries to download one from nvidia.com. There is no one there either. >> 2. When trying to make a kernel interface I get an error stating that >> the kernel header file >> /lib/modules/2.6.8-24.11-default/build/include/linux/kernel.h was not >> found. This could be due to kernel-src not being installed, so I >> installed the additional package. >> 3. Tried again and after additional errors I found that kernel.h was >> in another directory. >> 4. ran "sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run --kernel-source-path >> /usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24/include". > > > That is definitely wrong. > You should not need the --kernel-source-path parameter at all, > but if you specify it, it should point to your kernel source > tree, not to its "include" subdirectory. > If all is installed right, the script should find your kernel > sources in /usr/src/linux by default, which is a symbolic link > to the right directory (/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.10) in my case. > >> 5. Finally I get: ERROR: unable to build NVIDIA kernel module. >> >> Any suggestions? > > > Try running > sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run > without additional parameters and write down the exact error message > you get. > If the script does not come up with something useful and only > gives you a generic statement "nable to build NVIDIA kernel module.", > extract the contents of the archive to a directory using > sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run --extract-only > make that directory your current working dierctory using > cd NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1 > and build the module manually using > make install > as super-user. > > That should at least give you a useful error message. > > > Carsten.

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Hauppage Winfast TV2000 XP
by Sean Rima 28 Jan '05

28 Jan '05

Hello suse-multimedia-e, I cannot get my WinTV card to work with kdetv, it says there are no sources available :( I cannot find anything, as yet, on google that is remotely close so any help is appreciated. The same happens with other linux TV apps Sean -- Sean Rima <sean(a)tcob1.net> ICQ: 679813 YAHOO: thecivvie Jabber: thecivvie(a)jabber.org AIM: tcobone Vodafone +353879120530 2400 Baud makes you want to get out and push!! :irl-flag:

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TV out ripping
by Yuriy Chumak 23 Jan '05

23 Jan '05

Hello. I need an advice about of a process of ripping tv-out stream. I try several programm with some results. kWinTV - catch video but can not catch audio stream; kdetv - tell a message "VIDEOCMCAPTURE failed@; xawtv - catch slow video stream without audio. Kino - catch flicked stream. Tell me, please, what kind of program used peoles for ripping video cassetes or TV stream? My system is SuSE 9.0Pro. Regards, Yuriy.

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Terratec Cinergy 400TV mobility, installation
by Sami A. Hassanein 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

Hi My system is SUSE9.2 on a notebook. TV card is from Terratec, Cinergy TV 400 mobility. In modprobe.conf.local I added the following line options saa7134 card=8 kdetv does not find any channels - why? If I start xawtv4 I get the following error message station "0" not found As information dmesg | grep saa saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.12 loaded saa7133[0]: found at 0000:03:00.0, rev: 240, irq: 10, latency: 0, mmio: 0x40800000 saa7133[0]: subsystem: 153b:1162, board: Terratec Cinergy 400 TV [card=8,insmod option] saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is 40000 saa7133[0]: registered input device for IR saa7133[0]: dsp access wait timeout [bit=WRR] saa7133[0]: dsp access wait timeout [bit=WRR] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 3b 15 62 11 08 20 1c 55 43 43 a9 1c 55 43 43 a9 saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 10: 00 ff e6 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 00 02 02 01 3e 9b cb 91 03 03 00 07 00 01 00 saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 30: 00 02 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 saa7133[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2] saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0 I assume there is no tuner available. How can I install the appropriate tuner? Is there a binary package available? Thanks for any help Sami

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