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ALSA question
by Hans du Plooy 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

Hi all, At home I have a Soundblaster Live. This card can handle multiple audio streams, for example, I can listen to music, and the kde plings and plongs will still sound, and if someone phones me on skype, it will ring while the music is playing. At work, I have an old Soundblaster 128, which doesn't have this functionality in hardware. I know arts does this, but arts always lag (ever tried to watch a movie with sound going through arts?), and not all sound apps can talk to arts. I also know that ALSA can handle this. I've seen it done, but for all the things I've tried, I can't get it to work. I know it can be done, I've seen it done (saw it on a audiophile's PC, old redhat with alsa added by hand). Does anybody know how to do this? Thanks -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com

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APC UPS
by Jim Flanagan 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

Hi all, Does anyone know how to set up an APC Back_UPS XS 1500 battery backup? This APC ups works with a USB cable on the PC side connecting to an RJ-45 plug in the back of the ups. I'm using Suse 8.2. The apcupsd that comes with 8.2 does not seem to know how to handle the usb connection. Nor does the PowerChute I downloaded from APC, it only seems to work with serial. I tried installing rpm's from suse ftp for suse 9.0 and 9.1, but they have too many dependencies on 8.2. Does anyone have an rpm for a newer version of apcupsd for suse 8.2? Many thanks, Jim Flanagan linuxjim(a)jjfiii.com

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piped image viewing?
by Rikard Johnels 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

Hello world! Is there any image viewing program i can use to view a piped output? I am trying "dcraw -c | cjpeg | [some viewer]" to make a short and dirty script to preview RAW images. What can i use to view the output? -- /Rikard --------------------------------------------------------------- Rikard Johnels email : rikjoh(a)norweb.se Web : http://www.rikjoh.com/users/rikjoh Mob : +46 735 05 51 01 PGP : 0x461CEE56 ---------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [SLE] piped image viewing?
by Jeff Pohlmeyer 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

> Is there any image viewing program i can use to view a piped output? If you have ImageMagick installed, you can do: dcraw -c | cjpeg | display - __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250

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pkg-config wont config
by Steve Lett 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

Hi All, Just installed the SuSE 9.2 vers. on this AMD Sempron 2200 based system. Going about trying to install software, ...it requires PKG-CONFIG So I logged in as root and got PKG-CONFIG and ./compile make, install... no problems... Then trying to install libgnome-2.8.1 I get this error: <snip> checking for pkg-config... no *** The pkg-config script could not be found. Make sure it is *** in your path, or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable *** to the full path to pkg-config. *** Or see http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig to get pkg-config. *** The pkg-config script could not be found. Make sure it is *** in your path, or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable *** to the full path to pkg-config. *** Or see http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig to get pkg-config. configure: error: Library requirements ( glib-2.0 >= 2.0.3 gmodule-2.0 >= 2.0.3 gobject-2.0 >= 2.0.3 gnome-vfs-2.0 >= 2.5.3 libbonobo-2.0 >= 2.0.0 gconf-2.0 >= 1.1.11 ) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them. checking for pkg-config... no *** The pkg-config script could not be found. Make sure it is *** in your path, or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable *** to the full path to pkg-config. *** Or see http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig to get pkg-config. *** The pkg-config script could not be found. Make sure it is *** in your path, or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable *** to the full path to pkg-config. *** Or see http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig to get pkg-config. configure: error: Library requirements ( glib-2.0 >= 2.0.3 gmodule-2.0 >= 2.0.3 gobject-2.0 >= 2.0.3 gnome-vfs-2.0 >= 2.5.3 libbonobo-2.0 >= 2.0.0 gconf-2.0 >= 1.1.11 ) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them. I figure this is the key part: The pkg-config script could not be found. Make sure it is in your path, or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable to the full path to pkg-config.The pkg-config script could not be found. Make sure it is in your path, or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable to the full path to pkg-config. However, I don't know where these are set....where is a "path" variable in Linux ? Know how that is done in DOS but not in Linux... Anyone know where pkg_config_path environment variable is found ? I've looked for pkg related things and do find that the file /usr/local/bin/pkg-config does exist. And I found the pkg-config.1 man page, but don't see any help in there about this... Thanks all! Steve Hi All, Just installed the SuSE 9.2 vers. on this AMD Sempron 2200 based system. Going about trying to install software, ...it requires PKG-CONFIG Got PKG-CONFIG and ./compile make, install... no problems... Then trying to install libgnome-2.8.1 I get this error: <snip> checking for pkg-config... no *** The pkg-config script could not be found. Make sure it is *** in your path, or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable *** to the full path to pkg-config. *** Or see http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig to get pkg-config. *** The pkg-config script could not be found. Make sure it is *** in your path, or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable *** to the full path to pkg-config. *** Or see http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig to get pkg-config. configure: error: Library requirements ( glib-2.0 >= 2.0.3 gmodule-2.0 >= 2.0.3 gobject-2.0 >= 2.0.3 gnome-vfs-2.0 >= 2.5.3 libbonobo-2.0 >= 2.0.0 gconf-2.0 >= 1.1.11 ) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them. checking for pkg-config... no *** The pkg-config script could not be found. Make sure it is *** in your path, or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable *** to the full path to pkg-config. *** Or see http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig to get pkg-config. *** The pkg-config script could not be found. Make sure it is *** in your path, or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable *** to the full path to pkg-config. *** Or see http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig to get pkg-config. configure: error: Library requirements ( glib-2.0 >= 2.0.3 gmodule-2.0 >= 2.0.3 gobject-2.0 >= 2.0.3 gnome-vfs-2.0 >= 2.5.3 libbonobo-2.0 >= 2.0.0 gconf-2.0 >= 1.1.11 ) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them. I figure this is the key part: The pkg-config script could not be found. Make sure it is in your path, or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable to the full path to pkg-config.The pkg-config script could not be found. Make sure it is in your path, or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable to the full path to pkg-config. However, I don't know where these are set....where is a "path" variable in Linux ? Know how that is done in DOS but not in Linux... Anyone know where pkg_config_path environment variable is found ? Thanks all! Steve -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze

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Upgraded Mozilla still renders wrong
by Christopher Carlen 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

Hi: I just upgraded my Suse 9.1 to Mozilla 1.7.5 using the .rpm from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla Unfortunately, this version still renders some pages horribly. I know that Mozilla and Firefox on Windows, and even Firefox (vanilla from Mozilla.org) renders these correctly on Linux: http://shop.mellesgriot.com/products/ProductLine.asp?plga=020160&mscssid= For that site, text is rendered on top of itself and the menu in the upper left is messed up. http://www.travelocity.com/?Service=TRAVELOCITY For the Travelocity site, notice the link overlaying the "Search flights" button. Things get really screwed when I: 1. select "Minors" equal to some number >0, 2. then the "Minor ages at time of travel" drop-down is overlayed by a link, so it cannot be used. Anyone else notice these rendering problems on their Suse 9.1 installations? I am using 32-bit. Thanks. -- ____________________________________ Christopher R. Carlen Principal Laser/Optical Technologist Sandia National Laboratories CA USA crcarle(a)sandia.gov

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Re: [SLE] pkg-config wont config
by Jeff Pohlmeyer 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

> Anyone know where pkg_config_path environment variable is found ? Look around your system for directories like: /lib/pkgconfig /usr/lib/pkgconfig /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig /opt/gnome/pkgconfig Then add them like this, from the command line: export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig # etc... ( Or add that line to your ~/.bashrc file ) Note: Paths are separated with ':' on Linux, not ';' like DOS Environment variables are CASE_SENSITIVE ! - Jeff . __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Kernel question ...
by James Hatridge 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

HI all... In the log (tty10?) I've found this line: tux kernel: mtrr: 0xd6000000,0x2000000 overlaps existing 0xd6000000,0x1000000 What is this and should I be worried? TIA JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 ------------------------------------------------------ WartHog Bulletin Info about new German Stamps http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/bulletin/index.php Viel Feind -- Viel Ehr' Anti-US Propaganda stamp collection http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/collection/index.php

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detecting multiple monitors [9.2]
by Berge, Harry ten 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

Hi, I'm using SUSE 9.2, and have a machine equipped with a dual head nVidia adapter. This works al fine, but when I run a 'hwinfo --monitor' on the system I only see *one* monitor. Is it possible to detect multiple monitors? I know it is not depending on the nVidia, because I've got the same thing with a Matrox. Anyone an idea? Met vriendelijke groet / Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind Regards, Harry

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Re: [SLE] raid question
by TimSchofield.2231004＠bloglines.com 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

--- John Andersen <jsa(a)pen.homeip.net wrote: Put both partitions in the > raid (man mdadm ) but put the empty drive in as a spare. YaST can also do raid - through the partitioner tool.

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