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Re: [SLE] Strange Logs after Kernel Uprade
by eilert＠Informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE 30 Jul '00

30 Jul '00

nauta <nauta(a)heleogabalo.com.ar> wrote: > Hi, > Today I upgraded to 2.2.16 all was running perfect.... but I get this > message in my logs: > VM : do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd > VM : do_try_to_free_pages failed for kmail > VM : do_try_to_free_pages failed for AnyOtherProgram This is a known problem with Linux 2.2.16. Upgrade to on of the 2.2.17-pre kernels. (My machines are running fine with 2.2.17-pre1.) The patches against 2.2.16 are available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.2.17pre/. Eilert -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eilert Brinkmann -- Universitaet Bremen -- FB 3, Informatik eilert(a)informatik.uni-bremen.de - eilert(a)tzi.org - eilert(a)linuxfreak.com http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~eilert/ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

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[SLE] UMP (Netscape MIDI plugin) and SuSE 6.4
by paulsen＠texas.net 30 Jul '00

30 Jul '00

I use the UMP plugin with Netscape to play embeded MIDI files. This worked fine on SuSE 6.3 but when I upgraded to SuSE 6.4, UMP stopped working. The plugin is installed and enabled as can be seen by Netscape's "Help -> About Plugins". It's icon/logo shows up in web pages, its stop/pause/start buttons can be turned on and off, but there is no sound. Midi works in general since I can use KMidi to play Midi files. I don't think I broke any configuration files (i.e. timidity.cfg is the same and is in same path and same environment variable points to it.) Any ideas? -- ____________________________________________________________________ Robert Paulsen paulsen(a)texas.net -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

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[SLE] Re: LilyPond & KDE...
by pinard＠iro.umontreal.ca 30 Jul '00

30 Jul '00

[Greg Thomas] > > What do you mean? You do not really expect MIDI to sound like a real > > piano, do you? The approximation _is_ interesting, but never like > > the true thing. > No, no. It is the only instrument even though the SB AWE family has many > instruments and a couple of drum kits. When I choose, say, a woodblock > for percussion, it still plays as a piano sound. With Windows and added > RAM I can even add my own soundfonts from samples. Oh, then, maybe the generated MIDI file contains an early instruction to reset the channel to the piano, or maybe the generated MIDI file is buggy, who knows. In any case, a lot of MIDI files do not even contain such an instruction, yielding to the piano as a default. In the little sequencer I quickly wrote for myself (`--help' output below), I put options to either ignore instrument changes, or force all channels to be merged into a single one. In this way, the choice made on the synthesiser knobs does not get overridden by the MIDI file. ----------------------------------------------------------------------> Usage: joue [OPTION]... [INPUT] Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -c, --check check MIDI file without performing it -s, --speed=FACTOR adjust speed, bigger the slower, default is 100 -f, --freeze-channel inhibit all program changes -z, --channel-zero force all notes on channel zero -t, --transpose=NUM number of semi-tones of transposition -d, --drum=CHANNEL drum channel, not to be transposed, default is 9 -m, --map=IN..OUT map IN selection into OUT selection -D, --debug=BITS turn on debug bits, default is 8 --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit BITS are 1 deltas, 2 MIDI notes, 4 other MIDI events, 8 meta-events. With no FILE or if FILE is -, read Standard Input. ----------------------------------------------------------------------< Something vaguely related is that there is a Timidity has an option to change the default instrument, yet the MIDI file rules in this case: ----------------------------------------------------------------------> -I number Uses the program number as the default instrument. Any Program Change events in MIDI files will over ride this option. ----------------------------------------------------------------------< (Pouah! Simultaneous left-right justification undoubtedly looks nice, but it does decrease legibility when fixed width fonts are used. It should _never_ be done while generating `man' pages! These are meant to be read, not admired... Some people so easily loose sight of the goal of things...) Just for fun, I sometimes use this option from within a `jukebox' script I use, to select a random instrument for a default. Here is the relevant part of the code, where I usually keep the randomiser commented. Should probably make it an option instead! :-) def play_one(self, file): if run.terminal: display = '-id' elif run.bitmapped: display = '-iat -g 0.007' else: display = '-id > /dev/null' effects = '-a -R150 -EFchorus=2,80 -EFdelay=r -EFreverb=2' #self.execute("nice timidity %s %s -I%d '%s'" # % (display, effects, random.randrange(114) + 1, file)) self.execute("nice timidity %s %s %s '%s'" % (display, effects, run.extra, file)) By the way, that `jukebox' script is useful to me, I use it from time to time. Just tell me if you want me to post it here, or send it to you. You'll have to adjust it to taste, of course. ----------------------------------------------------------------------> Play shuffled MIDI files in a set of directories. Usage: jukebox [OPTION]... [DIRECTORY-OR-FILE]... Generic options: -c cycle refilling the jukebox when empty -j use `joue' instead of `timidity' -v be verbose about executed commands -o EXTRA extra-options for player program Timidity options: -d terminal display -x bitmapped display This script repeatedly scans all directories given as arguments, shuffle all MIDI files found and play them all. A few hundreds guarantee no annoying repetitions. This keeps the CPU heating, as MIDI synthesis is completely made by software :-). The sound quality is better than using (under MSDOS) the MIDI capabilities of the Soundblaster card, here... ----------------------------------------------------------------------< > Brahms is supposed to be able to play what one has just written but with > my card and ALSA I cannot get it to play. My device shows in Brahms > but I get no sound when I play my piece. It might then be some configuration or ALSA problem, then, probably related to `/dev/sequencer' not working as expected. If I ever stumble on a solution to this, I'll share it here. Hope you'll do the same, of course! :-) > Make that: http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/top.html OK, thanks for the correction. -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

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[SLE] Unneeded `/usr/doc/howto/en/CVS-RCS-HOWTO.gz'
by pinard＠iro.umontreal.ca 30 Jul '00

30 Jul '00

Hi, people. I just noticed that package `howto', on SuSE 6.4, installs both: /usr/doc/howto/en/CVS-HOWTO.gz /usr/doc/howto/en/CVS-RCS-HOWTO.gz while the second is merely an obsolete version of the first. One merely looses bits of own time by reading the second, while s/he should only read the first instead. I think the second should just not be distributed, as there is no real point in making it available. -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

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[SLE] Test - Delete now!!!
by nauta＠heleogabalo.com.ar 30 Jul '00

30 Jul '00

Hi Sorry if bothers you....... -- Nauta nauta(a)heleogabalo.com.ar ICQ=49972037 PD: Visite www.heleogabalo.com.ar -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

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[SLE] Strange Logs after Kernel Uprade
by nauta＠heleogabalo.com.ar 30 Jul '00

30 Jul '00

Hi, Today I upgraded to 2.2.16 all was running perfect.... but I get this message in my logs: VM : do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd VM : do_try_to_free_pages failed for kmail VM : do_try_to_free_pages failed for AnyOtherProgram After some of this logs I start getting other errors like SegFault doing a ps, X locks, when I rebooted the machine it get stuck sending the KILL signal I'm lost, never have this problem before.....any clue????? Thx in advance. -- Nauta nauta(a)heleogabalo.com.ar ICQ=49972037 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

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Re: [SLE] RAM filesystem
by steve.hjelmstad＠ci.seattle.wa.us 30 Jul '00

30 Jul '00

Absolutely, if you have compiled the kernel, make sure that you selected ram disk support. The kernel supports ram disks out of the box. Then you'll need to install the file system on it (I think the command is "mke2fs -vm0 /dev/ram xxxxx", the xxxxx designates the size of the ramdisk. Then all you need to do is create a mount point (mkdir rdsk - or wherever else you decide to mount it) then "mount /dev/ram /rdsk". You can verify that all is well with the "df" command. There is plenty of documentation, hunt around! -Steve >>> <omicron(a)pes.edu> 07/29/00 11:27AM >>> hi can i mount a part of the ram as a filesystem, just like another partition ? if so, should i "format" it into a ext2 fs ? thanx in advance cheedu -- ******* Sridhar (cheedu) || mail: cheedu(a)grex.org II Sem, || page: http://www.geocities.com/sri_dhar_n B.E Info Tech || site: cheedu.dyndns.org PESIT || nick: omicron,cheedu Smile.. Tomorrow will be worse -- -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

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Re: [SLE] BS sends DEL
by kmb＠eticomm.net 30 Jul '00

30 Jul '00

Does anybody know how to get default BS sends DEL. I have to deselect this in a kconsole to get my bs key back instead of a beep. All terminals do this. kmb SUSE-6.4 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

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[SLE] automounting CDroms on a NFS Server
by sean.rima＠tcob1.net 30 Jul '00

30 Jul '00

In 6.3 is it possible to mount a CD-Rom using NFS for use by Yast and if so, what is the fstab line. Sean -- Linux User: #124682 ICQ: 679813 My Current Uptime is 0d, 4h and 0m on Linux 2.2.16 ...Generated by Uptimer - http://www.tcob1.net -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

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[SLE] Re: LilyPond & KDE...
by pinard＠iro.umontreal.ca 29 Jul '00

29 Jul '00

[Helgi Örn] > Now i have downloaded and installed the latest version of LilyPond, when > trying to run it it goes: > -------- > lilypond: error in loading shared libraries: libguile.so.4: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory > -------- > (That's infact quite interesting because newly installed program tend to > ask for libguile.so.6 when they won't open!...:-\) I just used Lilypond per SuSE 6.4 CD-ROMs, without compiling it myself. It seems to depend on `libguile.so.6'. Are you sure you are executing the correct `lilypond' binary? Maybe you have another on your PATH, elsewhere? $ ldd /usr/bin/lilypond libguile.so.6 => /usr/lib/libguile.so.6 (0x40015000) libqthreads.so.0 => /usr/lib/libqthreads.so.0 (0x40090000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40098000) libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 => /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 (0x4009c000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x400e4000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40101000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000) $ rpm -qf /usr/lib/libguile.so.6 guile-1.3.4-52 > We are a few who are running SuSE 6.4 and haven't had any luck with > either MIDI or LilyPond. Strangely, I tried `jazz' and it says it cannot write to MIDI. On the other hand, I once wrote a sequencer which works for me. Let me see... Yes, it opens `/dev/midi00' for writing. While `jazz' speaks of `/dev/sequencer', if I remember correctly. However, I _never_ had any success, on any SuSE version so far, at _reading_ MIDI. I do not even know how one should normally do that. Yet a while ago, my younger brother got MIDI reading to work installing Cakewalk on a Win95 partition on my machine, so I would be not tempted to say it is an hardware problem. If I was able to read MIDI into Linux, I would surely be happy. I also easily live without it: there is so many things to do anyway, everywhere, that I'm never bored! Overwhelmed, maybe, but bored, never! :-) > > I do not know KDE. I quickly tried it two or three times, but failed > > to understand the advantages. Because so many people seem to enjoy it, > > I feel I'm just wholly missing something. Maybe I'm intellectually blind? > > I'm currently using IceWM, which is very sober, and effective to my needs. > > > That's interesting. I've used KDE since i started running Linux, so it's > more or less mere lazyness not wanting to spend time studying the other > alternatives. I know that KDE is the slowest of them all, i would like > to use Gnome but in SuSE it's just not running well. IceWM documentation says that is is Gnome compatible, whatever that means. I guess that Gnome specific applications would run under IceWM. It was also said to be among the two fastest window managers, and I tried the other one, but was not at all attracted by the bunch of big icons, all over. One think I like from IceWM is that the screen is very clean, and fully dedicated to my own windows, no manager noise. I got the menu bar hidden at the top of the screen, I merely just push the cursor up for a fraction of a second, when I need to use the menu. I easily adjusted the menu hierarchy to represent my habits and tastes. There is a nice `icepref' tool to set one preferences, written in Python and using GTK, that gives me the right amount of capabilities. I do not need so much extra fuss anyway. Of course, I added `icepref' to my own menu! :-) I met a few tiny bugs in IceWM, which I did not report yet. There are really tiny indeed, and do not really bother me. But I should ideally try to be a good citizen. I guess that their bug reporting system frightened me, as not being usable through email. It requires live Internet-connection. In clear, it means they are just not interested in what I have to say. :-) > > Maybe I've been lucky? If your file is simple, send it to me: [...] > What file? You `.ly' file. If I run it here with standard SuSE 6.4 tools, so should you on your side! > > Han-Wen gives me the impression of being rather responsive. Did you > > try collaborating with him? > No, who's he? You mean reporting to the LilyPond team? One of the two Lilypond creators and maintainers. You know, I much, much prefer relating to people than to committees, teams, or bug-tracking systems. Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen(a)cs.uu.nl> has always been very speakable, from my viewpoint. Cc:ed, why not! :-) -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

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