On 22/04/11 18:18, Mark Goldstein wrote:
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Basil Chupin<blchupin@iinet.net.au> wrote:
A couple of weeks ago (I think) I posted a message stating that vlc will not even start under openSUSE 11.4.
I just re-installed 11.4, as a totally new installation, and did all the necessary updates to all files. Still no vlc. xine works fine but not vlc.
I don't remember thanking Mark for his suggestion which I now do: Thank you Mark for the 'fix', greatly appreciated. You are welcome, though to be honest I've just found it on the net, so
... passing thanks to google :-)
Whatever, you did provide the answer which is what counts :-) .
But before I remembered Mark's suggestion, I went looking for an answer and found that there is a bug in KDE4.6.0 and which, as implied, has been fixed in KDE 4.6.1. Which is quite nice to know....if you only one knew how to upgrade your current KDE 4.6.0 to 4.6.1 (let alone to 4.6.2!) to get rid of just one (presumably) small bug to make vlc work.
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Will Stephenson referred us to the bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648718 and advised to update nvidia driver. I've laready had the latest stable version 260.19.44 when I saw vlc crash. One of the latest comments on this bug says it disappeared after upgrading to beta version 270.41.03. I'll probably wait a bit until 270 will become stable.
Also, I've KDE3 installed on that 11.4 in parallel to KDE4 and I see the same vlc crash with FPE on it (well, I still have KDM from KDE4 as display manager).
Regards,
I strongly suspect that some people blame faults on other software when they have stuffed-up their own "piece of the pie". People who "do" pulaseaudio blame some "bug" in ALSA when pulseaudio f******p audio. All one needs to do is to get rid of pulseaudio, run alsamixer(gui) to get sound working, and then re-install pulseaudio, if you must, and the audio works OK from then on. (Except, BTW, with openSUSE 11.4 KDE where you will NOT get alsamixer(gui) to even start unless you have pulseaudio installed! (If you don't have pulseaudio installed, you get "the 2-fingered salute", an error message, stating that alsamixer(gui) cannot find some file....) What does this suggest? That local fiddles by devs for a 'local' distro should be subject to scrutiny.) vlc. I have never had trouble with vlc - under whichever nVidia driver or Linux distro -- until this version of openSUSE 11.4 with KDE (4.6.0). (I haven't even heard of nVidia beta "270.41.03", until now!) Conclude for yourself. On other distros, with either KDE or Gnome installed, I am/was using nVidia #260 with vlc without a single hassle. Install openSUSE 11.4 with KDE - and the wheels fall off..... But what do I know.....? :-( . BC -- "My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I am going to be an uncle or an aunt." Chuck Nevitt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org