On Thursday, March 30, 2006 @ 10:53 PM, Darryl Gregorash wrote:

On 30/03/06 17:14, Cody Nelson wrote:

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Types of sounds/music played with amaroK. MP3, OOG, wave. Also gaim sounds. Like i said I get KDE sounds(start up, etc) I re-installed my sound cards imn yast, but didn't help at all.

/boot/grub/menu.lst # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Thu Mar 30 06:42:10 MST 2006

color white/blue black/light-gray default 1 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd0,2)/boot/message

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows### title Windows chainloader (hd0,0)+1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title SUSE LINUX 10.0 root (hd0,2) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 vga=0x31a selinux=0 resume=/dev/sda2 splash=silent showopts initrd /boot/initrd

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe -- SUSE LINUX 10.0 root (hd0,2) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off ac pi=off noresume selinux=0 nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3 initrd /boot/initrd

Check /boot/grub/device.map to see how the drives are actually mapped, ie. is hd0 actually your scsi device? If not, you will need to use the "map" command in the Windows section, prior to the chainloader command, to remap how the system sees the drives.

Hmm. Never seen a "(hd0,0)+1" specification before. Is that the same as (hd0,1), or does it mean find hd0,0 in device.map and then go down 1 (not likely, but I've never seen that type spec before)? Greg Wallace

Have you tried putting a music cd in and seeing if that gives sound? sounds like your sound server is not dropping control after the intro music. 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 rts not available db1 not available libartsc.so.0 not available libdvdnav not available libdvdnav.so.4 not available libmpeg2 not available libmpeg2.so.0 not available libwx_baseu-2.6.so.0 not available libwx_baseu_net-2.6.so.0 not available libwx_baseu_xml-2.6.so.0 not available libwx_gtk2u_adv-2.6.so.0 not available libwx_gtk2u_core-2.6.so.0 not available libwx_gtk2u_html-2.6.so.0 not available libwx_gtk2u_qa-2.6.so.0 not available libwx_gtk2u_xrc-2.6.so.0 not available libxosd.so.2 not available vlc 0.8.4a-1.pm.7 conflict Unresolved Requirements: vlc requires arts vlc requires wxGTK >= 2.4.2- vlc requires db1 >= 1.85- vlc requires libdvdnav >= 0.1.10- vlc requires libmpeg2 >= 0.4.0b- vlc requires libartsc.so.0 vlc requires libdvdnav.so.4 vlc requires libmpeg2.so.0 9 more... Conflict Resolution: ( ) Do Not Install vlc ( ) Ignore Conflict and Risk System Inconsistencies wxGTK not available Required by: vlc requires wxGTK >= 2.4.2- Conflict Resolution: ( ) Remove the Referring Package Do Not Install vlc ( ) Ignore Conflict and Risk System Inconsistencies and that is after an hr of tryign to find the right thigns to add vlc using packman, and I still have not been able to fix what suse did to my system to get back into windows. On 3/30/06, Peter Cannon wrote:

On Friday 31 March 2006 06:23, Greg Wallace wrote:

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Hmm. Never seen a "(hd0,0)+1" specification before. Is that the same as (hd0,1), or does it mean find hd0,0 in device.map and then go down 1 (not likely, but I've never seen that type spec before)?

Thats Ok its the section for dual boot here is my Grub menu.lst

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Tue Feb 28 20:18:43 GMT 2006

color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 30 gfxmenu (hd1,1)/boot/message

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title SUSE LINUX 10.0 root (hd1,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc2 vga=0x317 selinux=0 resume=/dev/hdc1 splash=silent showopts initrd /boot/initrd

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows### title Windows chainloader (hd0,0)+1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy### title Floppy chainloader (fd0)+1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe -- SUSE LINUX 10.0 root (hd1,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc2 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume selinux=0 nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3 initrd /boot/initrd

True its SuSE 10 but thats not relevant. Are you sure Windows C: is /dev/sda1 ? What does system ---> Monitor---> storage devices say?

Where is Windows C: supposedly mounted? try accessing it from there, its possibly /windows/C in your favourite file manager. Sometimes if you try and access it from /media it will fail as it might not actually be mounted.

Have a look at system--> control centre (yast)--> system--> partitioner Say yes to the warning if sda1 is there (and that is Windows) check its mount point and permissions.

Sound ------------ Have you tried putting a music cd in and seeing if that gives sound? sounds like your sound server is not dropping control after the intro music.

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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"

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows### title Windows chainloader (hd0,0)+1 GRUB is looking for your Windows installation at IDE hard drive 0 (the first drive primary hard disk on your system). The second 0 refers to the first partition on that drive. The +1 bit is correct. Now, is your Windows installation actually on this disk or is it on a SCSI disk or possibly elsewhere? From what you have said it sounds as though GRUB has picked up an old install that has only been partially removed. -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== Xmas may be over but, PLEASE DON'T drink and drive you'll make it to the next one that way. Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR

On Friday, March 31, 2006, Cody Nelson wrote:

Think I am answering everyones questions bellow.

Windows installation is on the SCSI drive, the ide drive had at one time an OS, but it is just a "my documents" disk now.

My C drive for windows is /dev/sda1. I keep my boot fat so I can more easily get to it with boot drives, linux, old habbit I started back in windows NT days. more /etc/fstab users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0 /dev/sda3 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/hdc1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0 /dev/sda1 /windows/D vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0 /dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 (removed the non relivant lines)

It is a 9 gig HD, strange that it show it being bigger, during the install it says it resized the window partian to 5 gigs df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 3.0G 2.3G 747M 76% / tmpfs 252M 12K 252M 1% /dev/shm /dev/hdc1 20G 13G 6.6G 66% /windows/C /dev/sda1 8.6G 3.4G 5.2G 40% /windows/D

When I set grub to boot off of hdc1 in yast(just in case), I ger the following, and nothing else, just sits there, "Chainloaer (# Chd 1,0)+1"

more /boot/grub/device.map (hd0) /dev/sda (hd3) /dev/sdc (hd1) /dev/hdc (hd2) /dev/sdb

I can access /windows/D (which is really the C:, and look over boot.ini and other files.

Partitioner shows: /dev/dhc 19.0gb Maxtor-5T020H2 0 2490 /dev/hdc1 19.0gb HPFS/NTFS /Windows/C 0 2490 /dev/sda 8.5gb SEAGATE-ST39204LW 0 1114 /dev/sda1 5.0 Win95 FAT32 LBA /windows/D 0 662 /dev/sda2 509.8mb Linux Swap swap 662 727 /dev/sda3 2.9gb Linux Native / 727 1114

On 3/31/06, Kevanf1 wrote:

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###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows### title Windows chainloader (hd0,0)+1

GRUB is looking for your Windows installation at IDE hard drive 0 (the first drive primary hard disk on your system). The second 0 refers to the first partition on that drive. The +1 bit is correct. Now, is your Windows installation actually on this disk or is it on a SCSI disk or possibly elsewhere? From what you have said it sounds as though GRUB has picked up an old install that has only been partially removed.

Could you post the contents of files /boot/grub/menu.lst and /etc/grub.conf? Greg Wallace