August 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

USB sound? How to make it work?
by Zhang Weiwu 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

Hello. My notebook have on-board sound card which is broken. I bought a USB sound card for replacement. The problem is SuSE detects the old on-board sound card and still use it for sound output, even if USB sound card is plugged in. How do I set SuSE to use my USB sound card as main sound device? I tried to go to Gnome control panel, go to Sound effect, and there is NO selection for which device to use for sound output (I checked it very carefully). I also try with mplayer by specifying second sound card with parameter: yuliansu@esmeralda:~> mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=1 test.wav MPlayer 1.0pre7try3-SUSE Linux 10.1 (i686)-Packman-4.1.0 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel (Family: 6, Stepping: 6) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal! To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection. Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (it should be readable by the user.) Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0 Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory Can't init input joystick Setting up LIRC support... mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: Connection refused Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing test.wav. Audio file detected. ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 1411.2 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 176400->176400) Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm:pcm (Uncompressed PCM) ========================================================================== Checking audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le -> 44100Hz/2ch/s16le... AF_pre: 44100Hz/2ch/s16le alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: hw:1 alsa-init: unable to set hw-parameters: Broken pipe alsa-init: pcm prepare error: Broken pipe alsa: 44100 Hz/2 channels/4 bpf/65536 bytes buffer/Signed 16 bit Little Endian AO: [alsa] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bps) Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le -> 44100Hz/2ch/s16le... Video: no video Starting playback... alsa-play: unknown status, trying to reset soundcard alsa-play: snd prepare errorA: -0.0 (00.0) ??,?% alsa-play: unknown status, trying to reset soundcard alsa-play: snd prepare errorA: -0.0 (00.0) ??,?% alsa-play: unknown status, trying to reset soundcard alsa-play: snd prepare errorA: -0.0 (00.0) ??,?% alsa-play: unknown status, trying to reset soundcard alsa-play: snd prepare errorA: -0.0 (00.0) ??,?% alsa-play: unknown status, trying to reset soundcard alsa-play: snd prepare errorA: -0.0 (00.0) ??,?% alsa-play: unknown status, trying to reset soundcard alsa-play: snd prepare errorA: -0.0 (00.0) ??,?% alsa-play: unknown status, trying to reset soundcard alsa-play: snd prepare errorA: -0.0 (00.0) ??,?% alsa-play: unknown status, trying to reset soundcard [repeat the above error message forever at very high pace] dmesg is full of something like this: ALSA sound/usb/usbaudio.c:810: cannot submit datapipe for urb 0, err = -28 ALSA sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:579: snd_pcm_oss_prepare: SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_PREPARE failed ALSA sound/usb/usbaudio.c:810: cannot submit datapipe for urb 0, err = -28 ALSA sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:579: snd_pcm_oss_prepare: SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_PREPARE failed ALSA sound/usb/usbaudio.c:810: cannot submit datapipe for urb 0, err = -28 ALSA sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:579: snd_pcm_oss_prepare: SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_PREPARE failed I tried this on Ubuntu too, same result. Here is my lsusb: yuliansu@esmeralda:~> lsusb Bus 004 Device 005: ID 0d8c:000c C-Media Electronics, Inc. Audio Adapter Bus 004 Device 004: ID 0d8c:000c C-Media Electronics, Inc. Audio Adapter Bus 004 Device 002: ID 05e3:0606 Genesys Logic, Inc. Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0d62:a100 Darfon Electronics Corp. Benq Mouse Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 KDE have a small application which also give a lot of detail of the sound card, however KDE do not allow me to copy-past this information. KDE help said these sound card information are obtained from simply reading /dev/sndstat and /proc/sound, both file are missing on my system. Any hint? P.S. I also tried to use good-old oss, by using mpg123, package from SuSE guru. I tried mpg123 -a /dev/dsp1 and was told only 'oss/alsa/esd' can be used as -a parameter, which the manual says device name like /dev/dsp1 IS THE CORRECT parameter for -a. Maybe I am getting old, I feel my old knowledge no longer useful any more.

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socks proxy in konqueror
by Michal Hlavac 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

Hello, I am trying to setup socks5 proxy in KDE. It works nice... kmail, kopete works wery well... ;) also firefox works ok... but konqueror still use native connection... why??? suse 10.1 with KDE 3.5.4 thanks, miso

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Re: [SLE] Update problems
by Clint Tinsley 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marcus Meissner" <meissner(a)suse.de> > To: "Clint Tinsley" <clintin(a)linuxmail.org> > Subject: Re: [SLE] Update problems > Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:49:06 +0200 > > > On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 04:46:19AM -0700, Clint Tinsley wrote: > > I ran YAST Online Update last night and now I have a lot of > > problems, some of which I haven't found yet. > > > > I got lot of these during a YOU update on 08/22/2006 - Some were > > really scary because of the package update being performed. > > (Y2LOG) > > > > 2006-08-22 19:37:00 <5> SuSE101(7129) [base] Exception.cc(log):94 > > rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery > > 2006-08-22 19:37:00 <5> SuSE101(7129) [base] Exception.cc(log):94 > > error: db4 error(-30977) from db->get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal > > error, run database recovery > > 2006-08-22 19:37:00 <5> SuSE101(7129) [base] Exception.cc(log):94 > > error: error(-30977) getting > > "m¡ ÷]b!^õ·ôïø·í·" records from > > Filemd5s index > > > > Now on logging in to session, I get this unhandled exception and > > no updater icon in the panel. The update icon hasn't work in a > > while so this is hardly a nuisance: > > > > System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an > > instance of an object > > in <0x003d6> Novell.Zenworks.Gui.ZenTrayIcon:CheckUpdatesLoop () > > in (wrapper delegate-invoke) System.MulticastDelegate:invoke_void () > > > > Smart seems to have died, hangs on the media repo's. > > > > Yast Online Update now appears to be broken as well. It is > > showing updates that have already been done, succesfully but > > doesn't seem to want to do any further updating. > > Your RPM database is for some strange reason broken. Likely due to > an earlier crash of RPM, a hardware > or filesystem error or similar. > > This confuses both ZMD and YAST. > > Please run "rpm --rebuilddb" once. Didn't fix. Still getting the error on logging in and Online Update shows a lot of updates still available but doesn't update anything, resorted the list slightly. Also, YAST was one of the packages updated last night early on while the Online Updater was still working. Clint

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Re: [SLE] Management: each user have a short cut to a certain folder on their desktop
by 张韡武 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

Jan Engelhardt <jengelh(a)linux01.gwdg.de> wrote: >> >>Even if I can creat shortcuts manually for all users (each host have >around >>10 users for 10 classes of students), I still have trouble next year when >I >>need to do this another 10x20 times because old users are removed and new >>users are created. I wish to creat it in /etc/skel but I cannot do it as >>long as they were not actually files. The 'everythig are files' concept >of >>UNIX seems no longer welcomed these days. >> >>Any suggestions? Is it possible, e.g. add my add-shortcut-script to the >very >>script created Desktop folder when new user login the first time? > >As long as symlinks are preserved during copy from /etc/skel to ~, there >should be no problem putting them in skel. I think there is a difference between shortcut icon and symlink. E.g. If I use symlink, the icon repersenting the symlink is always a executable with an arrow for a link, rather then the beautiful Firefox icon. I can ofcourse go to change the icon by log in as that user and right click to select an icon for it, however it's the same old problem: I need to do it 10x20 times each year. -- 锐业软服（国内业务） http://www.realss.cn Real SoftService http://www.realss.com 销售咨询(Sales Department): 0086 592 20 99987 (Chinese, German, English) 国际业务(International Sales): 0086 10 8460 6011 (German and English) 联系：厦门大学科技园，嘉庚二号楼6楼邮政：厦门大学2312号信箱（邮编361005）

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Re: [SLE] Update problems
by Clint Tinsley 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marcus Meissner" <meissner(a)suse.de> > To: "Clint Tinsley" <clintin(a)linuxmail.org> > Subject: Re: [SLE] Update problems > Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:49:06 +0200 > > > On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 04:46:19AM -0700, Clint Tinsley wrote: > > I ran YAST Online Update last night and now I have a lot of > > problems, some of which I haven't found yet. > > > > I got lot of these during a YOU update on 08/22/2006 - Some were > > really scary because of the package update being performed. > > (Y2LOG) > > > > 2006-08-22 19:37:00 <5> SuSE101(7129) [base] Exception.cc(log):94 > > rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery > > 2006-08-22 19:37:00 <5> SuSE101(7129) [base] Exception.cc(log):94 > > error: db4 error(-30977) from db->get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal > > error, run database recovery > > 2006-08-22 19:37:00 <5> SuSE101(7129) [base] Exception.cc(log):94 > > error: error(-30977) getting > > "m¡ ÷]b!^õ·ôïø·í·" records from > > Filemd5s index > > > > Now on logging in to session, I get this unhandled exception and > > no updater icon in the panel. The update icon hasn't work in a > > while so this is hardly a nuisance: > > > > System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an > > instance of an object > > in <0x003d6> Novell.Zenworks.Gui.ZenTrayIcon:CheckUpdatesLoop () > > in (wrapper delegate-invoke) System.MulticastDelegate:invoke_void () > > > > Smart seems to have died, hangs on the media repo's. > > > > Yast Online Update now appears to be broken as well. It is > > showing updates that have already been done, succesfully but > > doesn't seem to want to do any further updating. > > Your RPM database is for some strange reason broken. Likely due to > an earlier crash of RPM, a hardware > or filesystem error or similar. > > This confuses both ZMD and YAST. > > Please run "rpm --rebuilddb" once. Thanks, I will try this. The interesting thing was that the RPM error did not occur an every package update, just some. I am not aware of any system crashes that would have impacted the RPM Database. Clint

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Fwd: Posting error: vladernity
by stephan beal 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

Is anyone else getting these errors when posing to suse-linux-e??? They started this evening and i get them after every post! If we have a list admin around who can track the source, can we please unsubscribe the user who's doing this? ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Posting error: vladernity Date: Monday 21 August 2006 02:52 From: noreply(a)googlegroups.com To: stephan(a)s11n.net You do not have permission to post to group vladernity. You may need to join the group before being allowed to post, or this group may not be open to posting. Visit http://groups.google.com/group/vladernity/about to join or learn more about who is allowed to post to the group. Help on using Google Groups is also available at: http://groups.google.com/support -------------------------------------------------------

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Update problems
by Clint Tinsley 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

I ran YAST Online Update last night and now I have a lot of problems, some of which I haven't found yet. I got lot of these during a YOU update on 08/22/2006 - Some were really scary because of the package update being performed. (Y2LOG) 2006-08-22 19:37:00 <5> SuSE101(7129) [base] Exception.cc(log):94 rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery 2006-08-22 19:37:00 <5> SuSE101(7129) [base] Exception.cc(log):94 error: db4 error(-30977) from db->get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery 2006-08-22 19:37:00 <5> SuSE101(7129) [base] Exception.cc(log):94 error: error(-30977) getting "m¡ ÷]b!^õ·ôïø·í·" records from Filemd5s index Now on logging in to session, I get this unhandled exception and no updater icon in the panel. The update icon hasn't work in a while so this is hardly a nuisance: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object in <0x003d6> Novell.Zenworks.Gui.ZenTrayIcon:CheckUpdatesLoop () in (wrapper delegate-invoke) System.MulticastDelegate:invoke_void () Smart seems to have died, hangs on the media repo's. Yast Online Update now appears to be broken as well. It is showing updates that have already been done, succesfully but doesn't seem to want to do any further updating. I have to say that it seems with every update, openSUSE 10.1 get more broken, not a good thing. Clint

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Beagle Search
by Lívio Cipriano 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

Hi, Is there a way to set beagle to search in hidden folders? I only used the Kde GUI interface. Lívio Ciprano

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[SLE] Help! Not accessible some web sites...
by alexey fadin 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

Actually I have OpenSuSe 10.1 installed with ADSL modem conneted over Ethernet. Network card configured with static IP, primary and secondary DNS servers obtained from provider. Firewall turned off. Some sites work perfect but some of them don't work at all. With Wiindows XP I did'n met such a problem. Could anybody help to figure out what should I do?

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Is this possible: select run level when booting?
by 张韡武 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

Hello. For some special reasons I would like to configure a Linux box to allow user to select run level (3 or 5) BEFORE they boot the computer. That is, user is asked if they would like to go to run-level 3 or 5 in GRUB or LILO. How do I do this, if this is possible at all? -- 锐业软服（国内业务） http://www.realss.cn Real SoftService http://www.realss.com 销售咨询(Sales Department): 0086 592 20 99987 (Chinese, German, English) 国际业务(International Sales): 0086 10 8460 6011 (German and English) 联系：厦门大学科技园，嘉庚二号楼6楼邮政：厦门大学2312号信箱（邮编361005）

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