I have a box that has an alsa sound card. It works in
knoppix, but I suspect that is oss as the modules is called
sb, which doesn't sound like a alsa module to me.
AFAIK Knoppix still uses OSS instead of ALSA.
After dropping OSS and installing ALSA, you can try to use
alsaconf from the
[OT] A note about ALSA.
ALSA disappionted me greatly. A week ago I moved my home
server to a new box, intel i810 mainboard video,audio
integrated. When trying to get the integrated crappy AC97
to work ALSA produced terrible noise. The sound card was
TOTALLY unusable. After moving back to
A pc has two soundcards, and two users. I want one
soundcard to be accessible ONLY to one of the users, the
other - ONLY to the other user. How do I do this ? Can this
be done through .asoundrc ? How ? Or do I need to change
device file permissions ? On what files ?
Most distros use PAM for
Thanks for the info, but what are the files I need to
chown/chmod ? I am using ALSA, no OSS emulation layer.
phew, that's too much for me ;-) .
This is concerning ALSA sequencer, and I'd recommend to join
the ALSA user mailing list or the linux audio user
mailinglist.
AFAIK, asoundrc does
Maybe i exagerated a bit:
beep-media-player dies immediatley when playing a file. And
while I can listen to music in xine, xine dies when trying
to play a avi file with 'xiTK received SIGSEGV signal,
RIP.' Playing movies using mplayer works ...
Try mplayer -ao help to see a list of
Well: I've tried oss and alsa because I don't have any
other sound systems activated. Both work, but mplayer -ao
alsa some_file.avi imediatly kills the gnome-volume-control
...
I'm not familiar with Gnome in common or gnome-volume-control
in detail, but maybe GVC is buggy or there have been
But it is
possible that this has something to do with an upgrade of
alsa-lib which i made in connection with a world update.
I'm no ALSA professional, but AFAIK alsa-lib is the API for
audio applications as well as for mixers (maybe I'm wrong).
So, it may be possible that GVC is
All appears to have gone well except for sound.
that's bad :) .
alsaconf doesn't find any cards. I have NOT emerged
alsa-driver
You do not need alsa-driver because the drivers are now in the
kernel.
but have marked each of my sound cards in the
kernel configuration. Should I have made
Sometimes [about 1 in 3 times] my internet connection does
not work directly after booting. After restarting the
net.eth0 script all is fine. As this behavour is rather new
to me, and this is a bit annyoing [particullary for people
without root access] i would like to know if someone has
So far I've spent a very lot of time waiting for something
to finish emerging. It seems like things like Mozilla
take an extrordinary long time.
OK, mozilla is a strage example.
OTOH, I really like Gentoo, but certainly not for compiling
everything by myself. I'd really like to see some
Hi,
Where do I have to look for the problem? I compiled sound
support into my kernel and activated emu10k1 as module (but
I tried without that as well).
* You do not need the ALSA driver package with 2.6 kernels
because the drivers are now included in the kernel
* Disable all OSS stuff in
* You do not need the ALSA driver package with 2.6
kernels because the drivers are now included in the
kernel
any advices for a 2.4 kernel?
Thenj you'll need the external alsa-driver package, plus
alsa-lib and - optionally - alsa-utils.
Alsaconf is in alsa-utils, so I recommend to
Finished my new myth install last night, and there's no
sound. The simple explanation might be that I didn't
install alsa, trying instead to get it to work with just
the nvidia driver. So, I emerge'd alsa-tools (it's a
gentoo system) and loaded alsa
(/etc/init.d/alsasound start), and
I'm using mozilla-thunderbird-1.0 for reading RSS feeds.
When selecting an article, thunderbird only displays the
title of the article in the message window instead of
loading the web page. On another system (debian unstable)
it works as expected.
Is this a gentoo related issue? Or is it
But please don't ask me where I've set it ages ago ;-) .
So why bother posting?
sorry, I just felt in the mood to remember the old un*x joke.
But you're right, I should have shut up...
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After updating system and world, I can't su anymore.
when I try su, I get :
su: Permission denied
Sorry.
Somewhere you have to enable which users may do a su.
But please don't ask me where I've set it ages ago ;-) .
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How does chown work? #chown username:users doesn't
work.
It works. I used it yesterday.
I added username to wheel group, but when I su I
get: name expired(something like that).
The user seems not to be allowed to sudo. See /etc/sudoers for
details.
[...]
Why can't I many tools(cp, mv
Hi,
Control Centre - Desktop - Window Behaviour - Inner
Window, Title Bar Frame - Modifier key + left button -
Nothing.
cool. Well hidden: I had to set my control center to english
language, but thanks to your description, I found it.
Thanks a lot!
Best regards
ce
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Hi,
I have an application which wants to create events moving the
mouse while the alt key is pressed.
Unfortunately, this combo moves the window of applications in
KDE.
I didn't find any matching option in the control center. Are
there any chance to disable this behaviour in KDE?
Hi,
a short question:
I'd like to start playing with udev, but I'd like to not mess
up my system.
Is it save to emerge it, or will it remove existing parts of
my current system, or affect it in any way?
Thanks for any hint.
Best regards
ce
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It is safe. As long as you leave devfs compiled into your
kernel, you can switch between udev and devfs at boot time,
until you are happy with udev and remove devfs altogether.
See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml
Argh. RTFM ;-) .
Thanks a lot for the link (which I could have
what opensource software to we have to recommend to do some
small desktop publishing, ie family newletterm and
such.
Scribus.
Best regards
ce
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Desktop publishing = scribus or openoffice but mostly
scribus. If it's good enough for some newspaper it is good
enough for you ;)
Are you sure ;-) ?
Best regards
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1. Can I create a series of PNG pictues and then make a
movie from those pictures? What software will do that?
2. Is there a software that will allow me to work with my
software and record it?
3. What tool will enable me to add sound to the movie?
xvidcap.sf.net.
Best regards
ce
xvidcap.sf.net.
If you have questions about xvidcap, feel free to ask me via
PM.
Best regards
ce
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a tool for quck backup/restore of gentoo installation ?
Or better is to use standard tools dar/tar/cp !!?
I got my Gentoo system from a friend - a huge tarball on a
DVD!
I simply unpacked it to an empty partition, adjusted the
XF86Config and since this moment I'm a happy Gentoo
user ;-) .
Then you need to look at your alsa setup in
/etc/modules.d/alsa While alsaconf can configure this, a
manual edit, then an - update-modules force will
re-generate /etc/modules.conf
/dev/dsp is setup on boot when the device nodes get make by
coldplug/udev, or by devfs, if you're still using
i emerged this kernel last night, copied over my config,
generated a new initrd and when i boot i get a file not
found, i think on the line with the initrd splash image.
anyone gotten splashutils to work with this kernel?
you need gensplash.
Best regards
ce
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I used to be able to open aonther X session and connect to
kdm by running:
X :1 -query localhost
I log in on VT5 and type
startx -- :1
to open a second session.
Furthermore, there has been an other post some minutes ago by
Peter Ruskin (thanks to him BTW ;-):
=
Make your
How could I share the sound resources between different
apps?
You need a system which allows all of your applications to
play sound. Especially mplayer does support most of the
existing systems. try mplayer -ao help
Unfortunately, there are applications which can only
use /dev/dsp and will
For setting up dmix with alsa try this howto:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ALSA_sound_mixer_aka_dmix
AFAIK, DMIX will be included in the next Fedora release as
well as in one of the next ALSA release.
Best regards
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AFAIK, DMIX will be included in the next Fedora release
as well as in one of the next ALSA release.
dmix is part of alsa, no need to 'include' it, just to set
up your .asoundrc correctly.
Yeah, but writing an .asoundrc isn't the most trivial thing on
earth, due to its syntax.
I meant it
I'm wondering if anything uses Gentoo and MIDI together at
all? If so, could you please send me some details about
your system, software and kernel setup?
I use a Edirol UM-1S as a MIDI controller and a Terratec
Aureon USB 5.1. Both work out of the box thanks to
snd-usb-audio.
Best
What's recommended for a non-experienced user. Mostly I
just want it to be easy for him and not too difficult for
me to set up.
If you're on KDE, try knode.
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Hi,
I wonder if does anyone use elektra?
Somehow it seems that it is cool to unify configuration tasks,
but on the other hand, it reminds me to something I have
known some years ago ;-) .
It also seems to make it possible to create distro independent
configuration tools, replacing YaST,
someone for sure ;)
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63417
Cool ;-) .
Are there already things elektra can do on a gentoo box
(except setting variables at login)?
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I've installed Sane from Sane's CVS as that supposedly
has support for my Epson scanner. Does anyone have any
simple instructions about for how to get the scanner
recognized and Sane working? (In a sane amount of time...)
sane-find-scanner?
Best regards
ce
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Am Sonntag 30 Januar 2005 23:10 schrieb Mark Knecht:
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0121
[EPSON Scanner]) at libusb:001:004
but then scanimage tells me no scanner found. I assume that
maybe I need to load a driver or something but so far I
cannot seem to get things
I've been unable to get alsa working satisfactorily with
several of my sound cards (Audigy LS in particular).
I wonder; did you check the card matrix on alsa-project.org?
I've
solved this by installing the commercial OSS driver (which
is free for personal use with a few minor
Just a little question. I have alsa running right now and
I have my media keys mapped for commands. Yet in the
mixers Master volume control does not change the volume of
the rear or middle speakers. Is there another way to
change the volume of those speakers without writing my own
shell
what do you actually want the cd for if all your hard
drives are going to be mounted? is it simply a backup
kernel?
what I could have needed these days would have been my
bootmanager on a CD. For some reason (which I do not know) my
MBR has been bad and GRUB hung. So, having my GRUB on a CD
1) Record the cassettes on files using a tape recorder
connected to the mic port of the sound card (or there's
some other way to do it?)
2) Translate those files into wav files to be burned with
xcdroast.
Shell: arecord or gramofile
KDE: krec (enable full duplex for arts in the control
So Nicholas' demand semmes to be an official objective of
the Gentoo community, and he doesn't deserve to be flamed
at all !
Perhaps it would be cool to have something like
http://klik.atekon.de/
for Gentoo, so desktop users can easily download and test
desktop applications.
If someone is
Argh,
Andreas,
If all you need is the names of the USE flags then a simple
emerge -pv packagename
will work. To get a description of the USE flags used by
the package, try
equery uses packagename
thanks a lot. I looked into bash.history and I used
epm -pv
instead of
emerge -pv
Is this really necessary? Grow up.
Unsupported Operating System
If you were visiting this site with Linux, you could
install thousands of applications simply with a klik. You
can download a free copy of Linux here. Please come back
with a standards compliant operating system and browser.
Hi,
I was usually able to ask a package which USE flags it would
use by typing
epm -pv packagename
Meanwhile, I get a mysterious message instead:
One mode required, and only one mode allowed
It seems that there has something changed. Is there now an
other way to ask the package for the
As far as I know, there is nothing you can do about that.
[...]
Corrections happily accepted, but I think that's the deal.
I agree. The images are appended to the initrd; the only
solution I could think about is to put the image and
bootsplash code at the beginning of the initrd so it will
My problem is that I can't get
kde to register the input from the mic properly. When I
turn both mic and speakers on and put the volume up I can
hear myself correctly on the speakers (from the mic).
However, neither krec nor skype will record (forward) the
input from my mic
You can hear
The only app that acts as if we don't have a
sound card is xmms in her account. Any thoughts on how to
fix this?
xmms can play through almost any sound systems found on linux.
In xmms, choose options = settings = output plugin and
choose the same as you use in your account.
Best regards
All volume settings were demuted and set to max using
alsamixer or kmix.
- using kernel 2.6.10:
your card is marked as supported on the ALSA soundcard matrix.
I also have an USB-audio-device and it works really great.
I'd try to do a
modprobe snd-usb-audio
Then I'd try a
cat
Anyway, if anybody has any suggestions then I'm happy to
try them out!
Perhaps you'll have luck with ALSA modules:
modprobe snd-usb-audio
If not and you'll write a driver, perhaps it is the best
helping improving this module.
Best regards
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I got the sound working, but now I can't have two programs
using the audio device at the same time. I looked in the
Gnome Sound setup and made sure the start sound server at
startup was selected, restarted Gnome but still no
sharing.
Did I miss another config file somewhere that might
Are there mirrors that offer binary versions for the P4
for each package? I might have a few features built into
apps that I might not need, or maybe have to juggle a few
source distributions to make sure I get what I need, but a
mostly pre-built repository would just make my updates so
Well im assuming this is a winmodem and that sucks but im
hoping in the next few weeks i wont have to worry about it
but thanks for the info and it was what i thought it would
be.
Some winmodems work AFAIK; there are also some binary drivers
(I dislike them). See linuxant.com for example.
Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller
lsmod | grep -i intel
snd_intel8x0m 20036 1
snd_intel8x0 34592 1
snd_ac97_codec 77536 2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
intel_agp 23452 1
agpgart35500 2 intel_agp
snd_pcm
WShat's going on and what should I do?
Again me with no experience ;-) .
On my machine, I get:
lsmod | grep -i ohci
ohci_hcd 23560 0
ohci1394 35716 0
ieee1394 312376 2 eth1394,ohci1394
lsmod | grep -i uhci
uhci_hcd 35216 0
lsmod |
I do not have anything of the kind but I can modprobe it!
I think I'll have to call these modules into
/etc/modules.d/kernel-2.6 to have the started at boot time.
Well, without the base modules I guess it is OK if nothing
shows up.
At least one of the uhci or ohci is needed, and it should
Hi,
my girlfriend likes to print webpages for some reason.
Unfortunately, text is printed out very small, maybe 8 points
is the size.
In kwrite there are settings for the textsize for display and
print, but I didn't find a similar option in Konqueror.
Anyone a small hint for me?
Thanks
WShat's going on and what should I do?
The 2.6 series are more supportive concerning USB, but also
more precisely. So, my hub working very well on 2.4 was
simply trash with 2.6.
If you plug in your device to a hub, try it pluggin to the
root hub directly instead.
Best regards
ce
I've not yet been able to find a way to get mplayer,
noatun, or realplayer to play this disk. It does play in
my DVD player on my HiFi.
Try xine. It's that simple as pressing the matching button in
it's UI.
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I have alsa-lib installed, and I have get sound in most
things, but evolution isn't one of them. I have evolution
set to play a sound when new mail arrives, but it never
does. The sound file I told it to play is actually from
gaim, and in gaim it works.
Which soundfile is it? /dev/dsp?
There's a modem built into my Dell Inspiron 1000. I would
guess it's a winmodem but I don't know that for a fact.
Does anyone have any tips on getting it working? I'm
stuck somewhere for a few hours tomorrow, and the only way
to get online is
boop-boop-beep-boop-boop-beep-boop.
If
If I remember correctly yhese should be some sort of binary
file, correct. Where/how do I get the correct files?
I'm not familiar with it, but AFAIK you're right, it should be
binary files.
The last I had such a mess was on mandrake, but on Gentoo it
worked just right out of the box.
Okay. I'm using a 2.6x kernel. So, there's really *no* good
reason to compile alsa into the kernel vs. modules? I
intend to use this box as a soft synth and perhaps
multitrack audio... if I ever get past configuration
issues, that is.
You will surely. Gentoo is one of the best boxes for
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