September 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

enabling/disabling core dumps
by alan＠ibgames.com 30 Sep '03

30 Sep '03

Hi, I want to enable core dumping on a process so I can do post mortem debugging. This is a server process fired up by inittab which changes its owner from root down to the the correct owner. Since it doesn't run via the shell - in fact the shell never runs at all on this account, how do I turn core dumping on? (Come that how do I turn it off when I've finished as well!) Any help on this one, or pointers as to where to look would be appreciated. alan -- http://www.ibgames.net/alan Registered Linux user #6822 http://counter.li.org Winding Down - Weekly Tech Newsletter - subscribe at http://www.ibgames.net/alan/winding/mailing.html

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Gaim/libnss3.so
by James Ogley 30 Sep '03

30 Sep '03

OK, given that so many people seem to be having problems with using the new Gaim because of the linking against libnss3.so, I'm doing updated packages that are statically linked. The packages will be slightly larger, but you won't have to worry about whether you have Mozilla or not, or if ld.so.conf is set up right. They'll be on the website by the end of the day. -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james(a)rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter(a)myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.2) GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org

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KDE 3.1.4 for SuSE 7.3
by Nick Katsamas 30 Sep '03

30 Sep '03

Hi all, Did KDE 3.1.4 packages for SuSE 7.3 will be released soon. The only update i notice was on the qt3* packages. -- Best regards **************************** Nick Katsamas e-Mail: nkat(a)forthnet.gr ****************************

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Canon i950
by Shalom Naumann 30 Sep '03

30 Sep '03

Hi. Is there a way of getting the Canon i950 to work in SuSE? I figured out that if I choose the BJ800 then it works, but at about a third of the correct size. Thank you. _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963

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SuSe 8.2 and NVidia Geforce FX5600
by Bruce Barrera 30 Sep '03

30 Sep '03

Hi folks, Let me introduce myself, my name is Bruce and I'm new here and came looking for help. For days I seek a solution to a problem with my new vid card, a MSI Geforce FX5600. I changed my vid card and my mobo (to a VIA KT400 based one) and reinstalled SuSE 8.2 (my preferred Linux box). Everything in instalation went fine, I setup the system and get going. The 'nv' default driver was selected was yes, all went sooo fine. Until I decided to enable 3D acceleration. I need it. I work with openGL so without 3D accel, the OS has no meaning to me. Downloaded last Nvidia drivers 44.96 and went to runlevel 3, ran the installer and okay, every thing went fine again! Edited the XF86config file and switched from 'nv' to 'nvidia'. I thought: "SuSE is great! All the installations procedures went so easy, how it could be that still have people who says that Linux sucks, that Linux is hard, blabalbal". I was convinced myself that everything in life is easy when you are using a great Operating System. I was wrong. My hell just started. I wrote 'startx' at the console, relaxed at my confortable chair, put my hands at my head and waited. Waited a looong time. Ooops I forgot to press ENTER =) Just kidding...the screen was black with a little garbage at the bottom. I thought "W ell, it must be configuring himself lets wait more" and I'm just waiting till today (it has been 5 days) =) I tried to update the kernel with YOU (to 2.4.20-100) and nope. Tried to put NVAGP option set to zero in device section of XF86config. Nope. Tried to downgrade driver to 44.63 version. Nope. Played with all the options of Sax2. Nope. Tried to enabled 3D with Sax2 and manually. Nope. Tried to go to some exorcism sessions and nope too =) What could be wrong? Does SuSE doesn't support FX family at all? Does SuSE linux lacks support to new VIA KT400 chipset? Or it is Nvidia's fault? Or it is me that is a jerky and don't know to to do a simple 'new vid card setup' ? =) The odd thing with Sax2 was that he detected my vid card as a 'unknow 0x0312' graphics card. Searching the web I found that 0x0312 id the hardware id for FX5600 cards...but why does he has the Geforce FX5800 in his list and mine that is a step later he does not? Why? the best thing I got was to see Nvidias logo when I forced Sax2 to configure the system as it has a FX5800. The system crashed one moment later. Resuming: System boots fine, I see SuSE logo and progress bar. X seems to start loading, but screen goes black and system hangs. If I boot at runlevel 3, everything is fine. If I use nv default driver, yes it rocks! No 3D accel tough. Maybe I can upgrade to latest kernel? Is there a rpm with 2.4.22 kernel for SuSE 8.2? If so where do I find it (already searched at google, I promise) =) It is worth upgrading to 2.6 version? If so how do I do it? (never upgraded a kernel other way than from rpms) Any other suggestions? Thansk for your time...hope the mail was sufficient funny for you to read it all! =)

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glibc
by Robert Schweikert 30 Sep '03

30 Sep '03

Hi, Does anyone know if there is a glibc update coming from SuSE 8.2? According to the cross over office mailing list there are number of problems in glibc-2.3.2-6 which have been resolved in glibc-2.3.2-8. Thanks, Robert

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(SLE) 8 and rsync issues
by Mark Needham 30 Sep '03

30 Sep '03

Apologies if this has been discussed before but I have only just subscribed. Problem : Run half hourly ryncs (Version 2.5.5) from one SLES8 host to another. Unfortunately about one out of every ten ryncs fail immediately with the following :- > rsync error: partial transfer (code 23) at main.c(578) > rsync of directory lonshsfappb1.uk.db.com:/data failed There are no sym links in the /data file system and network connectivity between the two nodes has not been problematic. I've trawled through the internet and have not found anything specific that I can go on. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mark Needham

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RE: [SLE] SuSe 8.2 and NVidia Geforce FX5600
by Berge, Harry ten 30 Sep '03

30 Sep '03

> -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Joyce [mailto:daniel.a.joyce@worldnet.att.net] > Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 7:59 AM > To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSe 8.2 and NVidia Geforce FX5600 > > > > > The odd thing with Sax2 was that he detected my vid card as > a 'unknow > > 0x0312' graphics card. Searching the web I found that 0x0312 id the > > hardware id for FX5600 cards...but why does he has the > Geforce FX5800 in > > his list and mine that is a step later he does not? Why? > the best thing I > > got was to see Nvidias logo when I forced Sax2 to configure > the system as > > it has a FX5800. The system crashed one moment later. > > The FX5600 may be a downgrade of the 5800, this is not > uncommon, for cheaper > cards with restricted/crippled features to come out after the > base card. If > so, it may not be in the db. I've checked nVidia doc that comes with the latest driver set. 0x0312 definitely identifies a Geforce FX 5600. A Geforce FX 5800 is identified by 0x0302. So this is somewhat strange. And I can imagine this goes wrong. The nVidia driver detects the card by looking at this PCI id, and the driver *thinks* it deals with a 5600 iso a 5800. Could you provide the log file (/var/log/XFree86.0.log) so that we can have a look? Regards Harry

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Re: Installing HP PSC 1210 printer on SuSE 8.2
by Robin Rowe 30 Sep '03

30 Sep '03

The solution. Download 1210 PPD file from this web page: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-PSC_1210 Copy the PPD file to /usr/share/cups/model/HP. Install printer as typically would using Yast. PSC 1210 is now a driver choice offered under HP. Cheers, Robin --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin.Rowe(a)MovieEditor.com Hollywood, California www.CinePaint.org Free motion picture and still image editing software ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin Rowe" <rower(a)movieeditor.com> To: "Sgvlug (E-mail)" <sgvlug(a)sgvlug.org> Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 4:35 PM Subject: [SGVLUG] Installing HP PSC 1210 printer on SuSE 8.2 > I want to install an HP PSC 1210 printer, but it doesn't appear on the list > of HP printers in Yast. According to the HP site the 1200 series is a > supported driver. One web page recommended I install the 'hp-officejet' > package from the SuSE CD, but still no driver shows up. > > FYI, there is no /etc/cups/ppd/HPPSC1210.ppd file on my system. I can't > download that file at the moment because linuxprinting.org is down. Would it > help if I did? > > I've read many web pages without gaining much insight. Why is this so hard? > > How do I get Yast to add the 1210 to the printer drivers list so I can pick > it during install? If I can't do that, how do I install the HP PSC 1210? > > Thanks, > > Robin > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > Robin.Rowe(a)MovieEditor.com Hollywood, California > www.CinePaint.org Free motion picture and still image editing software > > >

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For those asking about the 2.6 kernel etc.
by Fred A. Miller 30 Sep '03

30 Sep '03

SuSE rolls out Linux Desktop 9.0 Posted September 29, 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time SuSE Linux on Tuesday will do its bit to bridge the 34- and 64-bit worlds when it makes available its SuSE Linux 9.0 desktop operating system that supports 32- and 64-bit applications running on AMD's Athlon 64 processor. The new version, which supports NIFS file systems, reportedly gives users a foreshadowing of some of the capabilities of Version 2.6 of the upcoming Linux kernel due early next year. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/29/HNsuse90_1.html -- "...Linux, MS-DOS, and Windows XP (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)."

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RE: [SLE] 9.0 coming tomorrow (Sep. 30)?
by Berge, Harry ten 30 Sep '03

30 Sep '03

> -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Sullivan [mailto:firechild@telia.com] > Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 2:47 PM > To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > Subject: [SLE] 9.0 coming tomorrow (Sep. 30)? > > > Hmmmm... > > > "One product that will be released imminently is Suse Linux > 9.0. The latest > version of this product, which is largely aimed at home > users, will be > available tomorrow, 30 September, Burger revealed exclusively > to IT Week." > > http://www.vnunet.com/News/1143941 > > > Tomorrow? Do the stores know this? Do the SuSE websites know this? > > Or does Burger not know what he's talking about? > As you can read on this site http://www.osnews.com it is released on October 24... This coming from a SuSE guy it seems reliable... Regards Harry

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Firewall is getting hammered...help
by Tom Nielsen 30 Sep '03

30 Sep '03

I'm with verizon "business" dsl. I've been having a problem lately with my firewall getting hammered by someone, or some people, on verizon. It almost appears that I'm getting a denial of service attack, but I think it's just somone sniffing...a lot. Example: Sep 28 22:31:31 linux kernel: SuSE-FW-DROP-DEFAULT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:50:da:0b:71:ce:00:02:3b:00:ab:32:08:00 SRC=4.3.91.228 DST=4.3.48.25 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=120 ID=34984 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=3578 DPT=135 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 OPT (020405B401010402) It's really bugging me and is causing problems getting and receiving email. Anyone know what I can do? Tom -- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 805.389.5435 ext.18 www.neuro-logic.com

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Re: [SLE] Firewall is getting hammered...help
by Stephen 30 Sep '03

30 Sep '03

Tom Nielsen wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 11:11, Stephen wrote: > >>/I even wrote a little script to find out the worst offenders, and tried to >>contact them, but to no avail./ >> > > Can I get a copy of that script? > > Tom Tom I had grep'ped for 'DPT=135' through all the accumulated messages log files and dumped them to a file, then ran this script against it. It isn't a great script as it isn't what I do, but I had a bash, or a perl, at it in this case, and it worked, learned something new. No doubt someone will improve it, probably to a one liner, but it worked for me. It will print out a list of IP addresses with the number of probes from that address. I did a reverse dns and a port scan against the worst one, found that some where running web sites which had a contact address on it. Wrote to them, but have had nothing back, except more probes. Change the filename to suit -------------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/perl open(IPFILE, '/home/stephen/log/messages.log'); foreach $line (<IPFILE>) { ($line) =~ /(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)/g; $ip{$1}+=1; } close(IPFILE); foreach $key (sort keys %ip) { $rdns = `host $key`; print "$key($ip{$key}) => $rdns\n"; } --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve

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problems with external firewire drives
by Brian Jackson 30 Sep '03

30 Sep '03

Hi- It's been a while since I've posted here as things have been working fine. except, now I've running into hardware problems. I'm a software guy, this stuff is just supposed to work! :-D OK, I have 2 external 120gb firewire drives and a Lexar firewire CF card reader attached to my firewire card on my SuSE 8.0 box. 2.4.18-64GB-SMP One of the drives says it's mounted, but only shows being 500megs and nothing is there. fdisk -l shows the full 120gigs. I've tried to umount the disk, but mount complains that the 'device is busy'. fuser shows that the kernel is accessing it. The other drive returns with the following error when I try to mount it: "mount: Not a directory". Now I've dug around for this error and nothing I found really suited me. The lexar CF card reader is fine! I'm including the output from df, fdisk, and catting /proc/partitions. I've also included the output from hwinfo --pci for the firewire card. [14:39:25] brian@omnipitus:~ > df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 502528 0 502528 0% /photo/orig [14:40:14] brian@omnipitus:~ > sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 14946 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 14946 120053713+ 83 Linux [14:40:36] brian@omnipitus:~ > sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc Disk /dev/sdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 15017 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 1 15017 120624021 83 Linux [14:40:40] brian@omnipitus:~ > cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name rio rmerge rsect ruse wio wmerge wsect wuse running use aveq 8 0 120060864 sda 269 57 394 160 0 0 0 0 0 160 160 8 1 120053713 sda1 259 3 266 110 0 0 0 0 0 110 110 8 16 1052352 sdb 2219 275868 278303 209680 20 10 30 3630 0 78660 213310 8 17 1052226 sdb1 2216 275859 278279 209670 20 10 30 3630 0 78650 213300 8 32 120627360 sdc 2776 159 22730 826630 27 6 264 10 0 17390 826640 8 33 120624021 sdc1 2773 138 22682 826600 27 6 264 10 0 17360 826610 [14:42:29] brian@omnipitus:~ > sudo fuser -uv /photo/orig USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /photo/orig root kernel mount /photo/orig [14:43:35] brian@omnipitus:~ > ll -a /photo/orig total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 5632 Dec 31 1969 ./ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 96 Sep 17 10:00 ../ 11: PCI 207.0: 0c00 FireWire (IEEE 1394) (OHCI) [Created at pci.65] Unique ID: jqQS.kALlum2QsaC Hardware Class: unknown Model: "Procomp Informatics FireWire (IEEE 1394)" Vendor: 104c "Texas Instruments" Device: 8020 "?" SubVendor: 15c5 "Procomp Informatics Ltd" SubDevice: 8010 "?" Memory Range: 0xff6ff800-??? (rw,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xff6f8000-??? (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 16 (no events) Driver Info #0: Driver Status: ohci1394 is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe ohci1394" Attached to: #3 (PCI bridge (Normal decode)) Any ideas or suggestions? I've rebooted a few times already. thanks, brian -- Brian Jackson http://www.brianjacksonphoto.com http://www.actionathletics.com http://www.sportsshooter.com/brian

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SuSE Watcher
by Jerry Feldman 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 By default, SuSEwatcher is configured for a dialup network. Through some searching I found that the config file is located at $HOME/.kde/share/config/susewatcherrc While I was successful in changing network from dialup to lan, I was wondering if there is a more appropriate place to set its configuration. I looked through YaST and the KDE control panel and the only place I found was the susewatcherrc file. - -- Jerry Feldman <gaf(a)blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/duJC+wA+1cUGHqkRAhYQAJ47ReHyCUNcW2HhUYbCAOrj4GM8LgCghF40 4ygvqNzSLvti1OJOpavnIu0= =eHrO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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samba 3.0 spec?
by Dmitry Melekhov 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

Hello! Could someone tell me where can I find Samba 3.0 spec file for UL?

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rest of kde has arrived (for 8.0 and 8.1)
by Richard Bos 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

For suse-80 and 81 the rest of kde has arrived, kdebase3 has been uploaded. kdebase3 has been updated for suse-8.2 too. http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/freshrpms.html -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless

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Suse 8.2 kernel compile problems
by Charles.99 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

With Suse 7.2 I compiled kernels many time with no problem With Suse 8.2 every attempt has been a disaster, luckily I have a 2nd install on a removeable hard disk for tinkering, dabbling and learning... I've followed the Admin guide instructions to the letter, but no luck. One question: in 7.2 the "make bzlilo" seems to do more than rename the kernel to .old and copy the map file, is that an area I should look at? I am using GRUB. The latest attempt resulted in: Kernel panic:VFS:unable to mount root fs on 03:43 I compiled the reiserfs support into the kernel, not as a module. (but I have tried modules as well) so what am I doing wrong? Thanks, Charles

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Mozilla has lousy font rendering.
by Patrick Hooker 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

Hi, I'm running SuSE 8.2 w/ KDE. I like using the Mozilla browser, downloaded v 1.4, but Mozilla is doing a lousy job of rendering any fonts. The fonts show up very jagged and thin. Konqueror and the other KDE applications do fine. Is this a Mozilla problem? Can it be fixed? Thanks, Patrick

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New SuSE and x86-64
by H du Plooy 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 21:59, Trey Gruel wrote: > Well.. I read on LWN that amazon.de has it for pre-order (Oct 23). Not > only that, but there is a 64 bit edition of Pro (I would assume for > Opteron/Athlon64 machines) Will this be separate distros for x86-32 and x86-64? Will the 64bit version *need* 64bit hardware, or just be capable of *using* it? The reason I ask is this. Someone mentioned to me that there's a good speed gain to be had by compiling a kernel with K8/Hammer selected as CPU on a normal Athlon-XP system. I didn't believe it would run but I tried and it does in fact boot and runs completely fine. I'm just curious about this. Why does a K8 kernel work on an Athlon-XP? Thanks Hans

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Windows's PC can't see my samba server =(
by Juan Ponce R 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

I have suse 8.2... I configure samba server, and i can access to windows's pc , but they can't see my samba server in network neighborhood.... why?? I configure samba in Mandrake, redhat, debian and slackware and works OK! , but in suse no.... =( note: I use swat for configure samba server note2: sorry, my english is very bad, i'm chilean.. =)

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multiple hd's on 1 nfs share
by Jason Unrein 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

Ok... how do I get multiple harddrives to show up as a single nfs share. I can do it using symlinks with samba but nfs doesn't follow them since it tries to resolve them locally. So... How could I go about doing it. Here's my setup drive 1: /mnt/raid drive 2: /ftpdrive drive 3: /mirrors I would like you have everything under /ftpdrive as in /ftpdrive/raid -> /mnt/raid /ftpdrive/mirrors -> /mirrors Any ideas to try would be appreciated. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com

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Add hp 1210 to printers list
by Robin Rowe 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

I want to install an HP PSC 1210 printer, but it doesn't appear on the list of HP printers in Yast. The 1200 series is a supported driver. I tried installing the hp-officejet package from the CD, but still no driver shows up. How do I get Yast to add the 1210 to the list so I can pick it during install? How do I install the HP PSC 1210? Thanks, Robin --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin.Rowe(a)MovieEditor.com Hollywood, California www.CinePaint.org Free motion picture and still image editing software

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SuSE 8.2 - Can't get internet access
by humvee 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

Dear All I am new to Linux and am having a problem configuring SuSE 8.2 Pro to access the internet. 8.2 is set up on a 40GB HD with WinXP set up on second 120GB HD. Access to the web is networked via a second machine with Linux Smoothwall 1.0 firewall and ADSL modem. Access is fine under WinXP. 8.2 has clearly identified Eth0 and this I have configured for DHCP in YAST2. However, when booting into Linux it fails to establish the network connection. This is obviously stopping me from getting on with Linux as I would like and look forward to any help that you can provide. Regards Humvee

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Suggestions on video and sound programming tips
by Rafael E. Herrera 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

Hello, I'd like to design simple audio and video playback routines. I've a digital signal acquired through an A/D that I'd like to play as sound. Also I'd like to draw the signal on a window that can be streamed through a video card with TV output. If there is anybody here, working on audio or video programming, I'd like to know if you have suggestions on how to get started. E.g. audio libraries, video libraries, video cards supported under linux, etc. Thanks. -- Rafael

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