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no MIDI from SoundBlaster Live!
by Glenn Holmer 03 May '02

03 May '02

Just upgraded to SuSE 8.0 from 7.2. I had the SB Live working great under 7.2, with soundfonts for MIDI and everything. Now under 8.0, KDE's Control Center shows me nothing under Sound/MIDI. MIDI files don't play even after using sfxload. gamix now shows a breathtaking panoply of options, but I still can't get MIDI sound. What am I missing? -- =========================================================== Glenn Holmer (gholmer(a)ameritech.net) ----------------------------------------------------------- Performing music well is a matter of distorting the score to produce the desired illusion, namely the existence of the score in a pure state. ----------------------------------------------------------- -Shadow, 1975 ===========================================================

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emu-config and error message!
by Curtis Rey 01 May '02

01 May '02

I have been trying to use some of the features in my SBLive 5.1 card. When I issue the command "/usr/bin/emu-config" it get the following message: SOUND_MIXER_PRIVATE3: Input/output error Does anyone know of a fix or workaround. I would very much like to acces more of the features of my sound card but have had know luck so far. TIA, Curtis

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Converting Albums to MP3
by Oliver Ob 27 Apr '02

27 Apr '02

> > I want to convert my record collection MP3 and I am looking for a way > > to do it. Somewhere in my memory is a program that will record what What I am after is that if I copy say 90 min of sound to say maybe 10 splitted wav tracks, I want to convert them all (all 10 in one directory) to 10 mp3 files in one command on the console. i am trying to write me sort of a mp3_2_wav script, but yet it does not work. so before i go like reinventing wheels here, has someone such a script (no x, just console script!) that maybe uses the mpq123 -w option? > I suppose that automatically identifying the pauses and separating the > numbers into individual files is possible with DAP, but I have not > investigated this. Regards, olli

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Windows Meta File
by Vanlathem 25 Apr '02

25 Apr '02

Hello, Today the internet is becoming more and more Windows specific. The WMF streaming is becoming more and more popular and is forcing people to use Windows as operating system. In Belgium Governomental radios publish WMF for live broadcast. There is clearly a need to support this standard on Linux. Does anybody know of any initiative in this direction? Greetings, Luc

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Logitech Keyboard and LILO
by Yann Larrivée 19 Apr '02

19 Apr '02

HI i just bought this Internet Keybord from logitech but i have a major problem with it with Lilo (lastest version 2.6) When my keybord is connected to the pc Lilo will crash has soone has it sees the keyboard. But if i unplug it befor lilo loads then plug it in, linux detects it and it works fine (with no extra fonctionalities, but that is ok).. What do i need to do to get lilo to work normaly. Some people told me i had to remake my lilo but it idid not work at all. Thanks Yann

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New archives of our lists...
by Christopher Mahmood 12 Apr '02

12 Apr '02

...can be found at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/. Yes, they're even searchable. Thanks to the nice people at theaimsgroup.com for hosting this service. -- -ckm

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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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