August 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

How to remake a MP3
by Rikard Johnels 13 Aug '05

13 Aug '05

Hi. I have a MP3 that refuses to play without sounding like a sawmill with a dual shipment of statics. It is a recording from a shoutcast radiostation, and it used to play perfectly. Somewhere either XMMS or the file got fouled up. I CAN play it in mpg321 witout problems. I CAN play it in Amarok and it sounds a-ok. But NOT in XMMS. Neither does it play if i convert it to wav. Same static. Is there a way of recoding the file? To write a true clean mp3 again? Kind of resample it. :) Bitrate 63 kbps <-- This might be a problem, but i am not sure Length 43:30 Sample Rate 11075 Hz Channels 2 Version MPEG 2.5 Layer 3 Copyright No Original No

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Torrent tracker down?
by robbinsc＠email.arizona.edu 13 Aug '05

13 Aug '05

Has anyone had any trouble with the torrent tracker being reported down? KTorrent keeps telling me that the tracker is down.... Thanks -Chris

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Mousewheel is working, but only downwards
by Jens Nixdorf 13 Aug '05

13 Aug '05

Hi, installed OS 10 yesterday at my old notebook (Toshiba Satellite 2800). Installation was running smoothly, except one or two things, so 'good job' to the maintainers. One point which isnt really working is that the mousewheel is working only in one direction: downwards. Even in the setup-part of yast, where you can test the mouse, it is only shown downwards. It is an older Logitech-Mouseman (M-BA 47), which is connected through USB. Here the mouse-section of my xorg.conf: Section "InputDevice" Driver "mouse" Identifier "Mouse[1]" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "EmulateWheel" "on" Option "Name" "IMPS/2 on USB" Option "Protocol" "imps/2" Option "Vendor" "USB-Mouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection My notebook has also a trackpoint (no touchpad) with two extra-buttons for Mousewheel up and mousewheel down. And they are also working only downwards. In xorg.conf there is no section for the trackpoint, anyhow it works (almost). What can i do now? regards, Jens

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Wacom graphire3, agaaaaaaaaaaaaaaain
by Dan Stefan Rundberget 13 Aug '05

13 Aug '05

I have been using Fedora for a while, but since SuSE was avaliable on ftp desided to test it so I installed 9.3. I got most things working but not my Wacom Graphire3 tablet. I've been googleing about it and found some mailinglist and forum posts which didn't help at all. (mostly 'xorg.conf' files) I've tried to use SaX2 but without results. Loading in and out the 'wacom' kernel module doesn't help a bit, and the LED on the tablet is off. (in fedora the tablet worked) I'm using both the pen and mouse, my other mouse doesn't work right, and when I tried to clean it I must have broken some thing. So I have a "wonky" mouse and have to do most of the things I usualy do with a mouse with the keyboard until I can get the tablet working. In a week I'll move away for a year (school) and I would like to know that everything works when I leave, so it will be alrigth when I return. In the 9.2 Live-CD I just need to 'modprobe wacom' and it works. (the LED is on when the system boots) I think the LED not working in 9.3 but working in 9.2 is important, but I donæt know much about how theese tablets work ands comunicates eith the system. So somone hwo knows more about this then me should be the judge of that. In SaX I can't spesify the device file since i don't know which reffers the the spesiffic usb port (have 2). I am using the default kernel and X version in 9.3 (PS, I'm a Norwegian so my spelling is a litle off:-) Thank You in advance.

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Mounting defaults?
by R Goodwin 13 Aug '05

13 Aug '05

I just booted my system with a new USB drive (local store branded version from CompUSA) on my 9.3 Pro system (ran YOU prior to this so patches, etc ... are rather current). It mounted as /media/usbdisk. I have a Western Digital USB drive and a DVD burner also on the system (all USB 2.0). The WD USB drive has 777 as the directory permissions and mounted as WD_USB_2. I see that the new drive (CompUSA drive) is owned by root and permissions are 700 - so only root has access to it. I don't recall setting the WD drive permissions but I suspect I did this a long time ago. That seems a bit scary to me. I'd rather have unknown or previously not access devices be cordoned off so there could be no damage/access until I grant it. Am I wrong? I'd like to change the defaults to be something like nobody as the owner and 600 as the permissions. Two questions: 1) Where would I set the mounting defaults? 2) Thoughts on my paranoia or desire to limit new devices?? Rich -- PGP/GPG Fingerprint: 8BF9 990D 8853 5CD8 AB44 8F48 7BC8 5D4B 1B25 7AEC found at pgp.mit.edu Remember, all Windows-based machines are fault tolerant. They run Windows don't they?!

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Re: [SLE] How to remake a MP3
by adamvaz＠earthlink.net 13 Aug '05

13 Aug '05

You could use one of the sound packages like Audioity (sic) and then save it back to something some palatable (128/192) to the player. Something tells me you got a hidden bug since XMMS or your player is syncing badly. BytheWay, the above audio pkg will need a extra download library to recode back to MP3 but does ogg and wav just okay. I use it to save my Treo ringtones in Ogg Vorbis. Adam -----Original Message----- From: Rikard Johnels <rikard.j(a)rikjoh.com> Subj: [SLE] How to remake a MP3 Date: Sat Aug 13, 2005 4:07 am Size: 871 bytes To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Hi. I have a MP3 that refuses to play without sounding like a sawmill with a dual shipment of statics. It is a recording from a shoutcast radiostation, and it used to play perfectly. Somewhere either XMMS or the file got fouled up. I CAN play it in mpg321 witout problems. I CAN play it in Amarok and it sounds a-ok. But NOT in XMMS. Neither does it play if i convert it to wav. Same static. Is there a way of recoding the file? To write a true clean mp3 again? Kind of resample it. :) Bitrate 63 kbps <-- This might be a problem, but i am not sure Length 43:30 Sample Rate 11075 Hz Channels 2 Version MPEG 2.5 Layer 3 Copyright No Original No -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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Absence of OOo and Java in openSUSE products (was: Should we use jigdo?)
by Shriramana Sharma 13 Aug '05

13 Aug '05

Starting different thread since topic diverged quite a while back: >> 1. Does OOo depend unavoidably on Java? > > more or less OOo 2 only or even OOo 1? >> 3. Are OOo and Java the only two stumbling points? You didn't answer this. If it's not a violation of policy or something, can I have the answer please? Thanks. >> 4. If Fedora is using Java right now, why can't we? > > Pure gcj based, so it will have the same restrictions as we will > have. We hope to be able to make it optional for the user to use the > Sun Java engine later. Somewhat like not including libdvdcss but not preventing a user from using it at his/her own discretion? -- Shriramana Sharma http://samvit.org

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CD ROM Puzzle
by Barry Premeaux 13 Aug '05

13 Aug '05

I have an Acer Aspire 1522 LMi running 9.3. It has a dual layer DVD-RW drive. I was recently copying some CD's in K3B when it stopped recognizing the CD. I couldn't read any CD's I had on hand. Tried to boot some Knoppix CD's and had no success. I was able to boot the 9.3 DVD. I sent it in to Acer, and they checked it out and replaced the mainboard. I got it back and found that I still couldn't read CD's. Acer support said to try the Acer Recovery CD, which I did. The recovery CD boots fine. I haven't called Acer back (as they will probably say the problem is with my Linux install which they don't support). My initial thought was that their was a problem in the firmware on the DVD drive and it simply would not recognize CD's vs. DVD's. But, now I simply don't know what is wrong. Does anyone have any ideas? Barry

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modem problem in suse 9.2 professional: solved
by Bernie Gardner 13 Aug '05

13 Aug '05

I have finally gotten the modem problem I described yesterday solved. In the process I upgraded the computer to 9.3, but I don't think that had anything to do with the solution. The modem a US Robotics/3 Com 5610. It is not, in fact a winmodem, but a fairly old model. After a couple of more searches of the web, I found this reference: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Mar/0947.html Turns out that you have to set up the serial port with setserial because the modem is hardwired to com 4/ttyS3 and for some reason is not recognized properly by linux. It took me a little a couple of tries to get boot.local setup to make the appropriate setting on bootup, but now it seems to work reliably. It initially worked with wvdial directly as root, but not through kinternet. I found that it was necessary to set the 'stupid mode' in the yast set up to get it to work in kinternet due to a peculiar way the isp works. That's not really related to the initial problem but I mention it here in case it is helpful to anyone. Thanks again to all who responded to my original post! Bernie Gardner w1az(a)arrl.net

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[SLE] new kernels, nvidia, yast
by Tad Whiteside 13 Aug '05

13 Aug '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I don't know if this is the proper place to post suggestions, but, here it is anyhow: I recently upgraded my kernel as suggested by SuSE watcher. YAST gave me several instructions on what to do after I installing the patch, however, as I am running an nvidia card, after my reboot, X wouldn't start because the kernel module wasn't for the same kernel - I got it figured out eventually, but it would have been nice for YAST to parse the xorg.conf file for "nvidia" and if found put up another dialog box giving instructions on what to do for this driver, suggestions to dowload new driver for nvidia, how to install it, etc. Thanks, Tad -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC+A2NXmZckhe5ygMRAolYAKCENIFV0vLNni0lB4+T+6LTJ/l0aACeJkRC S5km9KCHE4PtQyKPNMFf0iM= =P1Xj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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