Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Flac to mp3

2008-01-11 Thread michael norman
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [opensuse] Flac to mp3 Date: Friday 11 January 2008 From: Carl Hartung [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: opensuse@opensuse.org On Thu January 10 2008 10:49:27 pm Jason Craig wrote: clarge wrote: Is there a program to do the above? And if so what is

[opensuse] Problem with media device in Amarok

2007-11-05 Thread michael norman
Running 10.3 with KDE 3.5.8 release 21.2 and Amarok 1.4.7-111.pm.7 i586 I find that I cannot, as I could before, add other formats (ogg, flac, wav for example) to the list of formats I can add to be transferred to my iAUDIO player. In the dialogue box if I try to enter say ogg it appears as

[opensuse] M-Audio Audiophile 2496 PCI Sound Card

2007-10-22 Thread michael norman
Hi I wonder if any of you have experience of this card in 10.3 ? I bought one for use in my second box to play music ripped in flac and routed to my hi fi system. That it does, wonderfully. What I would also like to be able to do as well is record whatever its playing, in particular BBC

Re: [opensuse] HP Deskjet Printer in 10.3

2007-09-26 Thread michael norman
Thank you, but what exactly are you saying I should do, change something in the file and if so exactly what ? MIke Mike, case when you're hitting by this bug: output from grep DeviceURI /etc/cups/printers.conf contains /dev/usb/lp0 In this case run /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb

[opensuse] HP Deskjet Printer in 10.3

2007-09-24 Thread michael norman
I have an HP Deskjet D2300 usb printer which is detected and set up by the Yast printer module in 10.2. In 10.3 (the latest RC1) it is detected but I cannot get a test print from Yast. I have been able set it up to print using the KDE programme, so I know it works. Is there something amiss

Re: [opensuse] HP Deskjet Printer in 10.3

2007-09-24 Thread michael norman
On Monday 24 September 2007 21:05:26 Michal Zugec wrote: michael norman wrote / napísal(a): I have an HP Deskjet D2300 usb printer which is detected and set up by the Yast printer module in 10.2. In 10.3 (the latest RC1) it is detected but I cannot get a test print from Yast. I have been

Re: [opensuse] Swith between souncards ?

2007-09-17 Thread michael norman
On Sunday 16 September 2007 14:56:30 Tom Patton wrote: On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 13:29 +0100, michael norman wrote: Hi I have a box, used mainly for multimedia, which has two sound cards : the on board chip and an external Soundbaster USB. I can configure both have have not found an easy

[opensuse] Swith between souncards ?

2007-09-16 Thread michael norman
Hi I have a box, used mainly for multimedia, which has two sound cards : the on board chip and an external Soundbaster USB. I can configure both have have not found an easy way of either swithing between the two or assigning individual apps to automatically use a particular card.. The box

Re: [opensuse] Kernel only see 3 of 4GB

2007-06-05 Thread michael norman
On Monday 04 June 2007 11:05, G T Smith wrote: Frank Fiene wrote: On Montag, 4. Juni 2007, Jonathan Ervine wrote: On Monday 04 June 2007 09:09:20 Frank Fiene wrote: I've installed additional 2GB of RAM into my Thinkpad Z61p. My kernel (latest SUSE-10.2-64bit) sees only 3GB of 4GB! Do

Re: [opensuse] Kernel only see 3 of 4GB

2007-06-05 Thread michael norman
On Monday 04 June 2007 11:05, G T Smith wrote: Frank Fiene wrote: On Montag, 4. Juni 2007, Jonathan Ervine wrote: On Monday 04 June 2007 09:09:20 Frank Fiene wrote: I've installed additional 2GB of RAM into my Thinkpad Z61p. My kernel (latest SUSE-10.2-64bit) sees only 3GB of 4GB! Do

[opensuse] mythtv dvb cards

2007-05-15 Thread michael norman
Hi I.m looking for a DVB tv card that will work with openSUSE 10.2. The openSUSE mythtv howto suggests some that should work http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Opensuse_10.2#DVB.2C_the_Digital_TV_Card. Following previous threads on mythtv I have tried samples of the Hauppage Nova-T and the

Re: [opensuse] Re: Recording webradio

2007-05-14 Thread michael norman
On Sunday 13 May 2007 20:50:42 Jonathan Arnold wrote: Cristea Bogdan wrote: With my mms stream it doesn't seem to work. However interesting solution. Thanks anyway. Bogdan Check out Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ -- krecord will do it as well.. -- To unsubscribe,

Re: [opensuse] Dualhead with TV

2007-05-09 Thread michael norman
On Tuesday 08 May 2007 22:31:28 Sunny wrote: On 5/8/07, Sunny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as a starter, please post this line 135, or better, the while section it belong to. I meant whole, not while :) -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Even the most advanced equipment in the hands of the

[opensuse] Dualhead with TV

2007-05-08 Thread michael norman
Hi I'm trying to set up dualhead on 10.2 with a geforce fx5200 card, an Acer pc monitor and a Phillips tv which sax identifies as PHL PHILIPS 23WXGATV. I have set the resolution for the tv to 1024x768 (WXGA). This fails with the error that parse error in line 135 section device in file

[opensuse] Hauppuage WinTv Nova-T PC! problem with

2007-05-01 Thread michael norman
Hi Wanting to run Mythtv on 10,2 I looked at the Opensuse 10.2 howto http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Opensuse_10.2 for a suitable card to use and that says : Hauppauge Nova-T This card should be installed automatically under openSUSE 10.2. It should Just Work™, no installs or config

[opensuse] Amarok problem

2007-04-26 Thread michael norman
I have Amarok 1.4.4-47 installed on two 10.2 boxes. On one it runs ok but on the other it fails with Don't run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary! Use amarokapp What do I need to do to fix this ? TIA Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: [opensuse] Best way to convert wav to mp3

2007-04-18 Thread michael norman
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 09:27:47 Clayton wrote: Are you sure you were not talking about the Audio Cd Browser in Kong? It converted the opposite direction. Nope, definitely not that. This was an extension to Konq that added a component to the right-click menu. Convert Audio or

Re: [opensuse] TV tuners and alikes.

2007-04-13 Thread michael norman
On Thursday 12 April 2007 20:27:02 Graham Smith wrote: On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, michael norman wrote: So my question is, can I get Mythtv to work with openSUSE 10.2, if so where do I get it from and how do I set it up ? Mike I suggest you have a read of this site, it covers nearly all things

Re: [opensuse] TV tuners and alikes.

2007-04-13 Thread michael norman
On Thursday 12 April 2007 18:18:10 Sunny wrote: On 4/12/07, michael norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting. I;m in UK and one of the links points to Amazon UK who can supply the device, and later on in the article it says it works with Mythtv. So my question is, can I get Mythtv

Re: [opensuse] TV tuners and alikes.

2007-04-13 Thread michael norman
You might want to have a look at: http://www.isely.net/pvrusb2/pvrusb2.html I'm not sure if this is the same model that you have ordered. I've got one of these - it's listed as WinTV PVR USB2, so I'm not 100% it's the sam emodel you've ordered. Currently the pvrusb2 driver only seems to

Re: [opensuse] TV tuners and alikes.

2007-04-12 Thread michael norman
On Thursday 12 April 2007 15:04:15 Clayton wrote: This popped up on the opensuse.us forum on Monday. A good read, and looks to be nicely compatible with Linux. http://lunapark6.com/usb-hdtv-tuner-stick-for-windows-linux-hauppauge-wintv -hvr-950.html Maybe at least somewhat useful... of only

Re: [opensuse] Anyone with working WinTV PVR350?

2007-03-20 Thread michael norman
On Tuesday 20 March 2007 04:12:36 Teruel de Campo MD wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 22:22 -0400, Charles philip Chan wrote: MythTV uses a server client architecture. You must start the backend first before you can start the frontend. In essence, you can have a MythTV server in your house

Re: [opensuse] Fedora Merge - SUSE turn to follow

2007-03-01 Thread michael norman
On Thursday 01 March 2007 18:06:50 Alexey Eremenko wrote: hi all ! I think Fedora merge of Core and Extras is very nice indeed, and I think SUSE must follow this trend, and merge some community packages (from build service?) into the base distro. After all, having 5000 packages vs.

Re: [opensuse] Microsoft ordered to pay Alcatel-Lucent $1.5 bln in patent case - MarketWatch

2007-02-25 Thread michael norman
On Saturday 24 February 2007 21:49:29 Nick Zentena wrote: On Saturday 24 February 2007 16:07, John Andersen wrote: It hasn't, up to now, been worth anyone's time to go after off ogg because there is no one to sue, but as soon as any major manufacturer makes devices that play ogg you can

Re: [opensuse] Re: Adding Xbox to LAN

2007-02-19 Thread michael norman
Problem is xbox is in another room from router and I'd prefer not use a very long cable to do that. Hence the wireless option. The xbox wireless adaptor is £50 + so I'd prefer to do it using what I already have if I can. Hi, OK. Hmm I wonder, where box 2 is located then?

Re: [opensuse] Re: Adding Xbox to LAN (solved)

2007-02-19 Thread michael norman
On Monday 19 February 2007 10:09:40 michael norman wrote: Problem is xbox is in another room from router and I'd prefer not use a very long cable to do that. Hence the wireless option. The xbox wireless adaptor is £50 + so I'd prefer to do it using what I already have if I can

[opensuse] Adding Xbox to LAN

2007-02-18 Thread michael norman
My home network consists of two boxes running 10.2 connected to the net via an etec router. box 1 is connected directly to the router via ethernet cable. box 2 is connected viia wi fi My son has an Xbox which we would like to add to the lan. My question is can we do this via box 2. I'm

Re: [opensuse] Adding Xbox to LAN

2007-02-18 Thread michael norman
On Sunday 18 February 2007 20:37:21 Jan Tiggy wrote: michael norman wrote: My question is can we do this via box 2. I'm thinking that if I enabled the on board NIC on box 2 I could use SUSEfirewall to connect that nic to the Xbox. Best connceting xbox directly to your router. If can't

Re: [opensuse][OT] The BBC is asking if they should support Linux

2007-02-16 Thread michael norman
On Friday 16 February 2007 09:51:57 Russell Jones wrote: John Andersen wrote: Given the quality of the BBC these last few years the whole organization should be outlawed. Harumph! Please explain what is wrong with the BBC's output recently Do you get the digital channels? BBC Three and

Re: [opensuse] KaudioCreator, a slight problem

2007-01-26 Thread michael norman
In KaudioCreator with the cd you want to rip in, click on the icon edit album, the in the window scroll to the song in question and double click on that song and edit to your liking. use shorter names, no odd characters, redo the spaces as well, sometimes there is unprintable characters

Re: [opensuse] KaudioCreator, a slight problem

2007-01-23 Thread michael norman
I have found this happens to me sometimes too. What I have found is that it seems to be in the name of the file created by Kaudiocreator from the cd name, especially, but not always, if I save it to a vfat formated file system. Try renaming the song before it you rip the cd and see if

Re: [opensuse] KaudioCreator, a slight problem

2007-01-19 Thread michael norman
On Thursday 18 January 2007 00:20, Will Stephenson wrote: On Wednesday 17 January 2007 22:12, Kai Ponte wrote: On Wednesday 17 January 2007 10:23, michael norman wrote: Ripping cds to FLAC (or ogg) I find that with a few cds I cannot move the resultant tracks to either my back up USB Hd

Re: [opensuse] KaudioCreator, a slight problem

2007-01-19 Thread michael norman
On Friday 19 January 2007 17:28, Kai Ponte wrote: On Friday 19 January 2007 07:33, michael norman wrote: Here is an example -rw-r--r-- 1 michael users 18061463 2007-01-19 09:00 The Band - 01 - Across The Great Divide.flac Seriously, I would look at how you're saving the files. It appears

Re: [opensuse] KaudioCreator, a slight problem

2007-01-18 Thread michael norman
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 21:12, Kai Ponte wrote: On Wednesday 17 January 2007 10:23, michael norman wrote: Ripping cds to FLAC (or ogg) I find that with a few cds I cannot move the resultant tracks to either my back up USB Hd or my iAUDIO player. The message I get in both cases

[opensuse] KaudioCreator, a slight problem

2007-01-17 Thread michael norman
Ripping cds to FLAC (or ogg) I find that with a few cds I cannot move the resultant tracks to either my back up USB Hd or my iAUDIO player. The message I get in both cases is permission denied. cannot create the required directory. Grip doesn't have the same problem but I prefer the KDE

Re: [opensuse] Dualhead and 3D

2006-12-19 Thread michael norman
On Monday 18 December 2006 12:49, Clayton wrote: I also have a W2k partition which my son uses for his games. On W2k it is possible to run a game in 3D on one screen. When we try to run 3D games in SUSE using Cedega we cannot achieve the same. In other words what we get is the game

Re: [opensuse] Dualhead and 3D

2006-12-18 Thread michael norman
On Monday 18 December 2006 09:33, Will Stephenson wrote: On Sunday 17 December 2006 14:41, michael norman wrote: I have openSUSE 10.2 running in dualhead mode with an NVIDIA GeForce 6800 card and the latest NVIIDIA proprietary drivers. All of which works fine, except for 3D games. I

[opensuse] Dualhead and 3D

2006-12-17 Thread michael norman
Hi I have openSUSE 10.2 running in dualhead mode with an NVIDIA GeForce 6800 card and the latest NVIIDIA proprietary drivers. All of which works fine, except for 3D games. I also have a W2k partition which my son uses for his games. On W2k it is possible to run a game in 3D on one screen.

Re: [opensuse] Ralink

2006-12-15 Thread michael norman
On Thursday 14 December 2006 19:09, Lennart G Peterson wrote: The rt2500pci module does not work, the module that works is named only as rt2500. the modules that comes with suse is rt2500pci.ko and rt2500usb.ko they does not work, the module that works is the module created by your

[opensuse] Railink rt2500 10.2

2006-12-14 Thread michael norman
Hi all I have the Belkin Railink pci wireless card, which I use for my other pc on my LAN. It worked out of the box with 10,0 and could be configured in 10.1 by downloading and configuring the driver. On 10.2 although there appears to be support for it, I can configure it but not get a net

Re: [opensuse] Ralink

2006-12-14 Thread michael norman
On Thursday 14 December 2006 14:19, Jan Engelhardt wrote: You can stop after make install. Then go into Yast network card config, you should see the card there, select the card and click on edit, click on advanced and hardware details and change the name to rt2500 This is not required.

Re: [opensuse] Ralink

2006-12-14 Thread michael norman
On Thursday 14 December 2006 17:50, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Dec 14 2006 17:28, michael norman wrote: On Thursday 14 December 2006 14:19, Jan Engelhardt wrote: You can stop after make install. Then go into Yast network card config, you should see the card there, select the card

Re: [opensuse] Make SUSE DVD for 10.2

2006-12-04 Thread michael norman
On Sunday 03 December 2006 23:47, Basil Chupin wrote: michael norman wrote: Hi Does this exist for 10.2 RC! ? TIA Mike The test version is here- http://houghi.org/Fun/ file called- makeSUSEdvd.gz The author has asked for it to be tested and preliminary results show

[opensuse] Make SUSE DVD for 10.2

2006-12-03 Thread michael norman
Hi Does this exist for 10.2 RC! ? TIA Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] (Non-free) multimedia support in boxed Suse 10.0

2005-10-16 Thread michael norman
Please get informed about what patents, proprietary formats and the likes are before bashing. WMV is a proprietary, non-disclosed format from Microsoft, which means that noone can make a codec for it except Microsoft themselves. The only way to read those on Linux is to install the

[opensuse] apt sources list

2005-10-02 Thread michael norman
Hi Is there as Apt component list for SUSE 10 like the ones for earlier versions on the APT4rpm howto (http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/) ? TIA MIke - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: [opensuse] apt sources list

2005-10-02 Thread michael norman
On Sunday 02 October 2005 09:54, Richard Bos wrote: Op zondag 02 oktober 2005 08:23, schreef michael norman: Is there as Apt component list for SUSE 10 like the ones for earlier versions on the APT4rpm howto (http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/) ? It's there now. I also added