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Software Midi
by Z_God 21 Dec '02

21 Dec '02

I'm trying to get some good software midi program installed since my onboard audio (Via686) hasn't got any support for midi. I have installed Timidity with ALSA support according to the how-to. When I run the Timidity server (I need to run it with -B4,8 instead of 2,8 cause otherwise sound quality is bad, haven't tried any other values yet) eveything works correctly. The problem is that I would like to be able to use midi all the time without having to run the Timidity server each time. Also when I play a midi file, the sound device is used so I can't play wave sounds at the same time for example. Is there any workaround for this? Would it be better to use another program instead of Timidity in my case? Thanks in advance.

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[suse-multimedia-e] Audio CD Problems
by Gary Stanley 20 Dec '02

20 Dec '02

Hey all, I posted a question a couple of days ago about problems I was having with SuSe 8.1 recognising CD Drives properly.... I'd like to say thanks to all those who posted answers as things are now working much more like they should, but I still have one tiny problem - I can't play Audio CD's. I have the two drives - a DVD (/dev/hdc mapped to /media/cdrom & /media/dvd) and a CD Rewriter (/dev/sr0 mapped to /media/cdrecorder). Mounting DVD's and normal CD's in the DVD drive works fine and burning CD's with the CD rewriter also works fine but I can't get programs like XMMS to play audio CD's inserted in the DVD drive. I do have an audio cable running internally from the DVD drive to my sound card and I have made sure sound isn't muted anywhere... I have also made sure I have the correct permissions to play stuff but alas I cannot get this working!!!!!!! I know you can't mount audio cd's, but how do I get programs like XMMS to play audio CD's???????? Playing location "audiocd:/" doesn't seem to work nor does "/media/cdrom" or "/media/dvd"..... Any suggestions? Gary.

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[suse-multimedia-e] Problems with drives under suse 8.1
by Gary Stanley 18 Dec '02

18 Dec '02

Hi All, I have a problem with a pretty standard default Suse 8.1 installation where by I have one Philips 1200 CD rewriter & a panasonic 106s dvd drive and Suse seems to be reconising them wrong. If I stick a dvd in the dvd drive it gets mounted under /dev/cdrecorder !! I'm also unable to mount/play any audio cd's in either drive although sound works fine. (Yes they both have audio cables connected from them to my sound card) I'm a bit of a Linux newbie so I may just be being totally stupid but I'm a Windows (hiss, boo) IT techie by day and like to think I know a bit when it comes to solving problems but I could do with some help with this PLLLEEEEASSSSEEEEE. >From what I've read/learned the entries in FSTAB have a lot to do with drive allocation so the lines that relate to my drives are as follows: /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 Any help with solving these problems would be gratefully received...... Gary.

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RE: [suse-multimedia-e] Problems with drives under suse 8.1
by Gary Stanley 18 Dec '02

18 Dec '02

Thanks for all the suggestions you guys are firing my way, the PC in question is my home machine so I won't be able to let you all know if any of these fixes work until I get home from work tonight .... But I will let you know either way... -----Original Message----- From: Tony Bloomfield [mailto:tonyb.lx@btinternet.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 12:25 PM To: Gary Stanley; 'suse-multimedia-e(a)suse.com' Subject: Re: [suse-multimedia-e] Problems with drives under suse 8.1 On Wednesday 18 December 2002 11:24, Gary Stanley wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a problem with a pretty standard default Suse 8.1 installation > where by I have one Philips 1200 CD rewriter & a panasonic 106s dvd > drive and Suse seems to be reconising them wrong. <snip> > > Any help with solving these problems would be gratefully > received...... > Hi Gary, Suse made a bit of a cock-up on the 8.1 distribution. They implemented SCSI emulation on all CD drives but didn't set up the device links corrrectly. The following fix was suggested - Correct setup of SCSI Cds > The symlinks in 8.1 are wrong. > > # ln -sf /dev/sr0 /dev/dvd > # ln -sf /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom > # ln -sf /dev/sr1 /dev/cdrecorder > > Should fix it, if your DVD is 'hdc' and your CD-RW is 'hdd' I won't pretend to understand it, but it worked for me (also a newbie). There's also a bit of a permission problem. You need to do chmod a+rw /dev/sg0 Apparently sg0 is the general scsi controller. Problems like this come up frequently on the suse-linux-e list; you might be better off trying there. Cheers, TonyB

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Problems mounting a multi session CD.
by Jason Farmer 17 Dec '02

17 Dec '02

Hi everyone. I'm having problems getting to the data part of a CD. It happens with a couple of CD's that I own. One of which is Diskworld2, and the other is Filter - the Amalgamut I know there's multimedia content on the drive but when I go to mount it I get a message, Could not mount device. The reported error was: /dev/cdrecorder: Input/output error mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified I can play the audio though. My FSTab file has these settings. /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 Any Ideas? Jason

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xmms-dropouts
by David Herman 12 Dec '02

12 Dec '02

When listening to xmms while reading my mail xmms will dropout during the delete of a message (also while saving a bookmark in konq). I think this may be happening during other disk activity as well but I haven't explored this yet. ( I just spent a few minutes exploring this and it definitely seems to be disk access related ) I tried decreasing xmms nice value (giving it higher priority) to -4 but that didn't help. I'd appreciate ideas as this is very distracting. Suse 8.1 pro, kde 3.05 (although I've noticed the problem on other versions of suse and kde as well). I've got a brand new machine w/ athlon xp2000+, 512 mb memory and 2 seagate barracudaIV 80gb drives so I don't believe that computing puwer is to blame. thanks dh

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Re: [SLE] Why is this so DA*N difficult?!?
by Peter B Van Campen 08 Dec '02

08 Dec '02

Dear Marshall, I've tried Gramofile, KRecord and wavrec on my 8.1 sys withh a Creative SB Live! 5+1 to no avail. They all seem t9o think /dev/dsp is busy or non-existant. I have audio coming in to the 'line-in' jack and I hear it on line- out; I can control it with KMix. The recording apps cannot find /dev/dsp. Perhaps one of the more MultiMedia savy types will lend a hand? PeterB On Saturday 07 December 2002 03:50 pm, Marshall Heartley wrote: > > Are you using KDE? > > Yes but it doesn't matter if you are referring to the arts server > If so go to KDE Main menu select "Multimedia" and go down > > > the list to KMix, click it and look to see where all the volume sliders > > are; ry them out. If this does not help write back and we'll look a > > little deeper. > > They are OK. I can hear the audio that I want to record from my audio > speakers > > Things to check: > > Does this sys make the KDE event sounds? Yes > > Can you play an audio CD? Yes > > Are the cables and plugs clean and reliably connected? Yes > > To the right places? Yes > > Have you read the Gramaphone documentation? What little of it there is. > > That is where I got the text that when you select mixer in the program, > it wants to run xmixer that SuSE does not package. > > > Just basic stuff for sure but youknow that it is usually something very > > simple that solves most problems! So true! > > I also tried with arts running to use the artsdsp to tell gramofile to > use the arts server and that did not seem to help. > > > PeterB -- -- Proud to be a SuSE Linux User since 5.2 --

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by james zhu 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

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audigy2
by Tony Gilnett 28 Nov '02

28 Nov '02

Hi all, Fun fun fun, Creative has come out with another new card, and i was unfortunate enough to get it is there any way to get it to work under SuSE 8.1, any help would be appreciated. Yast says it is configured correctly, but it doesn't have any sound. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks -- Tony Gilnett <izark1(a)earthlink.net>

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xine-ui: setting path to xine before installing xine-ui
by Adagilson B B da Silva 28 Nov '02

28 Nov '02

I am trying to install Xinge-ui (xine-ui-0.9.13.tar.gz) and I just installed Xine-lib (xine-lib-0.9.13.tar.gz). I was at http://dvd.sourceforge.net/xine-howto/en_GB/html/howto-3.html#ss3.1 ..and it says to me: "IMPORTANT! Before you can compile xine-ui, you may need to inform your system of the location of the xine libraries, you may need to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to the directory you installed the xine library and/or run the ldconfig program. For example, if you had installed xine-lib to /usr/local, you may need to enter the following command before compiling xine-ui. $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH But I don't know where Xine-lib was installed, so I can't set the path. Some idea? (it's not in /usr/local/ or /usr/local/lib or /usr/local/man, according INSTALL file) "By default, `make install' will install the package's files in `/usr/local/bin', `/usr/local/man', etc. " thanks a. -- Adagilson Batista Bispo da Silva Bibliotecário FIOCRUZ-Centro de Pesquisa Aggeu Magalhães Fone 81 3302-6524

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