On Thu October 27 2005 4:18 pm, Paul wrote:

Have you also tried alsconf?  This is a console-based tool (it needs root privileges) which can work well configuring older sound cards (such as ISA... is yours one?) # alsconf bash: alsconf: command not found

-- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800

hi, On 27/10/05, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Paul Cartwright [10-27-05 16:20]:

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# alsconf bash: alsconf: command not found

would probably work better if you spelled it correctly, alsaconf

Oops, I should read mails carefully before I send them. -- /Paul "It's not about the ending, it's about the journey." - Lex Luthor

Paul Cartwright wrote: 9SNIP)

so I ran YaST and found it hadn't installed mplayer ( I thought it was installed) so I ran YaST and installed mplayer-1.0pre7-pm.3.i586

ok, I can now play MPG videos! BUT, I can't play MP3 files. what's next?

How would we know? Mplayer outputs like a ton of data when it tries to play something and all that valuable information you are keeping from us. Regards, -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704

On Fri October 28 2005 11:51 am, Matt T. wrote:

mp3 is proprietary, it is not legal for suse to add it (without having paid for it.)

right, I knew that.

use OGG, it is better anyway.

I use it when the songs have that extension, I'm not going to convert 20 gigs of MP3's to OGG any time soon:)

for mp3, install the missing stuff. i think there are other posts with a list already

thanks, but that post was not JUST for MP3 info, it was a "super list" including a bunch of apps to burn/work with DVDs, taken from this post: There IS a performance gain with this release, a nice bonus! Now, for anyone using SUSE 10.0, don't have the multimedia files needed to play DVDs, etc., and don't know what files to get from http://packman.links2linux.org/, here is a list of the files you will need, including what is needed to rip a DVD. You could call this a "super" list for multimedia. ;) 10.0-libdvdcss2-1.2.9-1.i386.rpm divx4linux-20030428-0.pm.0.i586.rpm dvdbackup-0.1.1-0.pm.0.i586.rpm kaffeine-0.7.1-3.pm.0.i686.rpm kaffeine-mozilla-0.2-0.pm.1.i686.rpm kdvdbackup-0.5-1.pm.1.i586.rpm libdvdcss2-1.2.8-0.pm.2.i686.rpm libdvdread-0.9.4-149.pm.0.i686.rpm libmpeg3-1.6-0.pm.0.i686.rpm libxine1-1.1.0-12.pm.1.i686.rpm mjpegtools-1.8.0-0.pm.1.i686.rpm speex-1.1.10-0.pm.0.i686.rpm w32codec-all-20050412-0.pm.0.i586.rpm xine-ui-0.99.4-5.pm.1.i686.rpm -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-pcartwright/key.asc

On Friday 28 October 2005 00:50, Sunny wrote:

On Friday 28 October 2005 00:31, Sunny wrote:

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Anyway, I'll try the other suggestions from the list and use alsaconf, and I'll report back.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. It works. I wish I had knew this 3 weeks earlier :)

Thanks guys

Too bad. 2 new problems: 1. After reboot, no sound. I needed to run again alsaconf. Then the sound works. Strange, as alsaconf have made the changes in /etc/modprobe.d/sound. I guess I have to disable the hotplug (or coldplud) for the sound card. I remember reading somewhere something, but I can not find this any more. Any pointers? 2. mplayer started as a user does not play sound. If I start it as root, the sound is there. All devices in /dev/snd/, /dev/dsp and /dev/rtc has rw-rw---- permissions with owner root:audio. And my user is member of audio. The strange thing is, that if I run mplaer as root, it says that it uses OSS as audio output?!?!? And if it not root, it fails when tries OSS output, saying permission problems on /dev/dsp. Any help solving this are highly appreciated. Cheers Sunny

On 10/28/05, Matt T. wrote:

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On Friday 28 October 2005 00:50, Sunny wrote: 1. After reboot, no sound. I needed to run again alsaconf. Then the sound works. Strange, as alsaconf have made the changes in /etc/modprobe.d/sound. I guess I have to disable the hotplug (or coldplud) for the sound card. I remember reading somewhere something, but I can not find this any more. Any pointers?

probably the modules do not get loaded automatically. yast would have arranged that, normally at least...

do a lsmod when all works, and a lsmod after a fresh reboot. some snd* related modules will be missing, reload them manually (as root, "modprobe xyz"). If you know them all, then try putting the modprobe's in /etc/init.d/boot.local or similar.

and do not forget to check alsamiver, sound might get played, but muted, you need to unmute manually. Especially pcm related stuff.. Once the volumes are ok, do a "alsactl store" (as root).

HTH, Matt

Yes, the modules are not loaded. I just wanted to avoid boot.local stuff, and to do it SuSE way. Reading the docs, hwup should check what's in /etc/modprobe.d/sound and load it. All these modules are in /etc/modprobe.d/sound. And there is a file in /etc/sysconfig/hardware/hwcfg- for the card as well. I just can not figure it out how to change these files so the hwup script picks them up. Any help? And ... for the second problem - I found out, that if I do not use alsaconf for a second time, but just modprobe the module, mplayer works OK. So, for now I just would like to do the right stuff to load modules upon startup. Cheers -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)

hi,

I have just installed the SUSE 10.0 Linux on my PC. I found it very easy to install, even for an amateur in Linux, like myself. The only problem so far is related to my USB modem. Yast Control Center recognizes the modem and says that its 'name' is /dev/ttyACM0

This is the device name and what a dialer will use to "talk" to it. Check that the modem can be talked to by using each of the following commands on two different consoles: cat /dev/ttyACM0 echo "AT" > /dev/ttyACM0 If I remembe correctly... so, on the console with the cat command you should see the modem's reply, if any...

However, in kppd, no /dev/ttyACM0 is given as an option. Only /dev/usb/ttyACM0 (which seems correct because my modem is a USB one).

If i go like: mkdir /dev/usb mknod /dev/usb/ttyACM0 -c 166 0

and I choose /dev/ttyACM0 in kppp, there is no answer hwen I wuery my modem, and , in Yast Control center, the modem's name remains /dev/ttyACM0.

Have you tried configuring it in YaST and then using kinternet? YaST will allow the use of /dev/ttyACM0 directly. But anyway, why don't you just make a symlink between /dev/ttyACM0 and /dev/usb/ttyACM0? -- /Paul "It's not about the ending, it's about the journey." - Lex Luthor