On Saturday 01 April 2006 01:00, Cody Nelson wrote:
I think is it somethign like that, I can play music cd's just fine. It is looking like suse doesn;t come wiht the ability to play any media formats, strange, but even workse is the huge list of crap I am having to go through to get it to play my anime and movies. I am about to pull my hair out over frustration, I have been using linux since 97 off and on, mostly as servers. And I keep trying to switch to it as a desktop, but each tiem I hit walls of imposible frustration. what I call dependancy hell, there has to be an easier way, just look at whta I need
1st, I don't have a problem with you Cc: me directely but it would be better to keep this on-list as others may use this thread as a means to solve their issues. 2nd I think you need to start a new thread with your sound issue as these mails will end up huge. Having said that......
rts not available
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Conflict Resolution: ( ) Do Not Install vlc ( ) Ignore Conflict and Risk System Inconsistencies
I see you are trying to install vlc I take it you wish to use that as your multi media app? Supposedly it works on SuSE however I haven't managed to get it to install either via yast or by compiling it. For all of my Music and Podcasts I use Amarok now this is where it gets fun by default its set to use Helix but that dosent work you need to select Engine in the left hand pane, on the right you should see some paths change them to /usr/lib/RealPlayer10/common /usr/lib/RealPlayer10/plugins /usr/lib/RealPlayer10/codecs You should have sound/music from either CD, MP3 files and Webcasts. As for Movies I use MPlayer its never let me down on both SuSE and Fedora. However I note that your output says 'rts not available' so that may point to an underlying sound server issue. Couple of things to try. 1. If not done already change your session to New so that it dosen't save your current session it maybe that something you tried to do is popping up again in the saved session, reboot your system, I know you only need to log out but lets make absolutely sure. 2. Is the system sounds working do you have that enabled? If KDE startup is working then I reckon you do. Lets not worry about playing that Gorillas album just yet. If system sounds are working then that points to a player issue. ----<End sound issue>----
and I still have not been able to fix what suse did to my system to get back into windows.
Download Smart BootManager and put it on a floppy here is the link http://btmgr.webframe.org/ Its very very good and got me out of trouble many-a-time stick the floppy in and start the machine (Hopefully your BIOS is set to boot from floppy) when you see the main screen do a fresh partition scan I think its ctrl h but you'll find it, scroll to the section that you believe is the Windows and press enter it should boot into Windows. If it does then you need to fix the /mbr. thats whats causing the problem not SuSE If you have the XP disc (and XP is no longer on there/needed) boot of the XP CD drop to a recovery console log in to C: (Not D: in your case) and do /FIXMBR that will wipe and rebuild mbr next do restart change CD to SUSE use the automatic recovery/fix feature let it do its own thing ie accept the default settings and it should be sorted. You need to clean up Windows first SuSe is trying to do the best it can with the crap info your mbr is giving it :) -- Regards Peter Cannon FC5 & SuSE10 Jabber:highwayman.turpin@gmail.com "There is every excuse for not knowing There is no excuse for not asking"