June 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

How to master all channels on emu10k1 and how to set up 5.1
by Rikard Johnels 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

Hello all! I have a (or rather two) slight problem(s) with my emu10k1 (SB live! value) card. 1. I have no idea on how to controll both front and rear volume at the same time. My front speakers are set in the "1" jack on the card, and the rear in "2". I have sound in rear system as long as "Wave surround" in kmix is above zero. Master controls the front, so does PCM (playing mp3's via xmms) But the rear system is at set volume regardless of master/pcm Only the "Wave surround" can change the level. Not even "Mute" disables sound in the rear system. Is there a way to set a true master volume so i can mute both front and rear at the same time?? 2. How do i connect a 5.1 system to the card? I have a "ordinary home stereo amplifier system" for all 5 speakers. (3 amps, 5 line level inputs, 5 speaker outputs, no special decoder) I haven't found too much info on how to connect things to that card.. -- /Rikard " Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something." -R. Stallman --------------------------------------------------------------- Rikard Johnels email : rikjoh(a)norweb.se Mob : +46 763 19 76 25 PGP : 0x461CEE56 ---------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [SLE] simple sound recording ?
by Mark Gray 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

Paul Cartwright <paul_tbot(a)pcartwright.com> writes: > On Sun June 12 2005 8:25 am, Ken Schneider wrote: >> Make sure you don't have the mic muted. This messed me up a couple >> of times. Change it in alsamixer just to make sure the toggle isn't >> the opposite of what you think it should be. You may want to turn on >> the PCM function as well if the input is to low. > in alsamixer PCM Out Path says muted, but I can't figure out how to > UNmute it... >From man 1 alsamixer: M toggles muting for the current channel (both left and right). If the hardware supports it, you can mute left and right independently by using , (or <) and . (or >) respectively. [snip]

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Problem - Apollon/Gnutella network
by andreil1＠starlett.lv 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

Hi, Anyone have used apollon (available in guru´s directory) for gnutella network? I have latest version with all gift libs installed and corresponding TCP/UDP ports open. However, apollon connects to FastTrack and OpenFT networks, but not to Gnutella and Ares. Info status just says ¨Connecting...¨ and this stays for forever. There are no much settings in preferences to adjust gnutella settings. Anyone have a clue how to solve this problem? Thanks. Andrei

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recommended bittorrent client
by Walt Frampus 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

I am looking for a bittorrent client to use in Suse 9.3. Anyone have any recommendations? TIA Walt

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No Carrier Problem with Via AC97 Modem
by Barry Premeaux 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

I'm running 9.3 on an Acer Aspire 1522LMi. The internal modem is a VIA AC97 chip set. I loaded the smartlink-softmodem package and was able to configure the modem. I can get it to dial out, but it fails on Carrier Detect. Searching on google, I found that you need to add 'Carrier Check = no' to the wvdial.conf file. I did that, but the log view still shows kinternet looking for the carrier. The AT&C* commands don't seem apply with regards to detection. Can anyone help me with this? Barry

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Has anyone sucessfully run SuSE on SGI VW320/540 ?
by Rikard Johnels 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

Hi i just bought a SGI Visual Workstation. I am curious to test Linux on it (of cource) I plan three parted multi boot win2000, WinXP and Linux to benchmark the three against each other (rather amateurish, but still) Has anyone gotten the VW320 working under Linux "out of the box" or du i need stuff from SGI too? (like drivers for different stuff etc.) -- /Rikard " Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something." -R. Stallman --------------------------------------------------------------- Rikard Johnels email : rikjoh(a)norweb.se Mob : +46 763 19 76 25 PGP : 0x461CEE56 ---------------------------------------------------------------

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9.3: keyboard, zip disks, mounting encrypted FS, KDE Samba
by AmigaPhil＠ping.be 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

Hello All, I'm a "beginner skilled" user of Linux and I recently installed the 9.3 distribution. Everything went fine during the installation, but a few things seem wrong or stuck me now the installation and online update is completed: - The keyboard does no more work properly (missing keys, like the "@") It appears that X keyboard cannot be configured properly and switch back to a default setting. Using SaX2, I got the following error message: (WW) MGA(0): Option "CalcAlgorithm" is not used (EE) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap And from a console, the command "setxkbmap -v 10" return this: Setting verbose level to 10 locale is C Applied rules from xfree86: model: pc104 layout: be variant: basic Trying to build keymap using the following components: keycodes: sfree86+aliases(azerty) types: complete compat: complete symbols: pc/pc(104)+pc/be(basic) geometry: pc(pc104) Error loading new keyboard description This problem has been submitted to the Suse support team and is being investigated. Hopefully, this should be fixed soon. In the meantime (It's now a week I have to cut-and-paste the characters I can't produce with my keyboard), anyone has an idea ? (My keyboard is a Mitsumi 105 keys, Belgium layout, model KFKEA5SA) - Zip Disks (IOmega). Here is another request I sent to the Suse support team, but there will be no follow-up for this one (as "configuration of ZIP drives is not supported through the terms of the installation support"): As I understand, a (Iomega) ZIP disk is automatically mounted when you first access to it. But when I have finished using the disk, I cannot eject it. I tried to unmount it (as user), and got the error message that the device is probably mounted multiple time (?), and it failed. I have to unmount the ZIP drive as root to be able to eject the disk (then I can insert and eject other zip disks as normal). In fstab, here is the entry: /dev/hdd4 /media/zip auto noauto,user 0 0 but in mtab, there are two entries (after the ZIP disk is first mounted): /dev/hdd4 /media/zip subfs rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid 0 0 /dev/hdd4 /media/zip vfat rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=amigaphil 0 0 Where should I look to find the origin of the "excessive" mounting ? What should I modify/remove to be able to use the ZIP disk like a floppy disk, or at least not having to unmount the drive as root to be able to eject it ? - Mounting an encrypted FS in a file (at a mouse click) I have successfully created a encrypted filesystem in a file and I can mount/unmount it from a console. I wonder if there is a way to configure e.g. KDiskFree to make it prompt for the password when I try to mount the encrypted file ? Or is there a better way to mount/unmount it using GUI ? An icon on the desktop ? - Samba / KDE I'm trying to access my second computer using the KDE Samba client, but I'm getting all sorts of errors like "connection timeout", ... Is KDE/Samba reliable or should I configure my Suse/Linux machine as a Samba server ? Note: When I was using the 8.0 distribution, I found that the best (stable) way to access my Amiga computer shares was to mount the shares using LinNeighborghood (which is no more part of the 9.3) I believe the Samba support has improve in recent distributions, so I think I should still be able to access my Amiga shares now. I would like to see the shares being mounted (if the remote computer is available) as I log in as user. That's all for now ;-) Thanks. AmigaPhil, world citizen. _No MS-HTML mail please_ PGP key: 0x9C07F6C1

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Sharing a dvd over NFS?
by Steven T. Hatton 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

There is probably a way to do this, but I haven't been able to figure it out. I want to share my dvd over NFS. If I put this in /etc/exports I get an error saying that I don't have permission from the server when I try to mount it on a client: /media/dvd *(sync,root_squash,ro) Can this be made to work? -- Regards, Steven

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Re: [SLE] SATAII 4 times slower than SATA150?
by Claus Olesen 11 Jun '05

11 Jun '05

Here's the hdparm output. ------------------------- # hdparm /dev/sda2 /dev/sda2: IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) HDIO_GET_UNMASKINTR failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device HDIO_GET_KEEPSETTINGS failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 30401/255/63, sectors = 248979225600, start = 2072385 ------------------------- # hdparm -i /dev/sda2 /dev/sda2: Model=HDT722525DLA380 V44O, FwRev=V44O, SerialNo= Config={ } RawCHS=30401/255/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=0 (maybe): CurCHS=30401/255/63, CurSects=0, LBA=no IORDY=no PIO modes: pio0 AdvancedPM=no * signifies the current active mode ------------------------- Claus On Friday 10 June 2005 14:42, Cristian Rodriguez wrote: > 2005/6/10, Claus Olesen <colesen(a)pacbell.net>: > > In my SuSE 9.3 box I have a > > > > - Hitachi T7K250 SATAII harddrive > > - Samsung SP1614C SATA150 harddrive > > - ASUS A7N8X motherboard (with Silicon Image 3112A bios version 4.2.27) > > > > The problem is that the Hitachi drive is 4 times slower to write to than > > the Samsung drive - leaving the Hitachi drive unusable for capture of > > video from my camcorder because of too many dropped frames. > > > > Anyone know of a fix for this? > > Or another good place to post the problem? > > please send us the output of > > root#hdparm /dev/xxx > root#hdparm -i /dev/xxx > > where xxx is the device name of your hitachi drive.

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alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed-Permission denied
by Paul Cartwright 11 Jun '05

11 Jun '05

ok, now I have no sound and when I try to run alsamixer I get this error message: alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: Permission denied I did a YOU update recently, and rebooted yesterday. running SUSE 9.3 KDE 3.4 linux:/home/pbc/Documents/ # uname -a Linux linux 2.6.11.4-21.7-default #1 Thu Jun 2 14:23:14 UTC 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.comcast.net/~p.cartwright/wsb/key.asc

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