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RE: [LUG] Problems, problems (and more problems)...



Wahoo!  Cheers...  8-)

Jon

On Thursday 29 August 2002 04:42, you wrote:
I've found when I want to run xine I have to kill the artsd, then
everything runs fine:
eg. # ps -A|grep artsd
    <return pid of artsd>
    # kill <returned pid>

Hope this is of some help.
Rich

===== Original Message From Jonathan Melhuish <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> =====
I'm afraid these have kinda mounted up, as my previous posts to the list
didn't seem to get through, even though the response about Hosting, which
I sent from my laptop, did - even though they have identical Identity
info on both machines.  Not quite sure why that was...

I've just built myself a new machine:  Athlon 550Mhz, 128Mb RAM, 80Gb hard
drive, surround-sound card, D-link Ethernet NIC, and of course, Linux
(Mandrake).  I see you all looking down your noses from your shiny new
P4s, but I don't reckon it's too bad for under £200  :-P

But of course, now that I have all this processing power, I quite
inevitably want to do something with it (apart from just install Linux on
it).  Like play DivX movies...

XINE loads fine and seems to load the file OK, but when I click play, it
says (in the console):

xine-panel: PLAY
xine_play: xine open /mnt/cdrom/MATRICE1.MPG, start pos = 0, start time =
0 (sec)
xine: using input plugin >file< for this MRL (/mnt/cdrom/MATRICE1.MPG).
demux_avi: AVI_init failed (AVI_errno: 9)
xine: using demuxer plugin >MPEG< for this MRL.
metronom: audio stream start...
metronom: waiting for video to start...
metronom: video stream start...
Using MMXEXT for IDCT transform
Using MMXEXT for motion compensation
metronom: audio stream start...done
audio_loop: using decoder >mad<
video_out : thread created
video_decoder: using decoder >mpeg2dec<
mpeg2dec: frame size 352 x 240
spucc: new frame size: 352x240
spucc: update_intrinsics
metronom: set_video_rate 3003
video_out_xshm: unknown aspect ratio (12) in stream => using 4:3
video_out_xshm: frame source 352 x 240 => screen output 704 x 528,
software scaling
yuv2rgb: using 2*zoom optimized scale_line
libmad: audio sample rate 44100 mode 00000008
audio_oss_out: ao_open rate=44100, mode=8, dev=/dev/dsp
audio_oss_out: audio rate : 44100 requested, 44100 provided by device/sec
audio_oss_out : 2 channels output
audio_out: output sample rate 44100
Segmentation fault

The last line of which seems particularly encouraging!  I should mention
that I am using KDE/ARts/ALSA and that sound works fine in other programs
(eg. XMMS) when set to "OSS" mode, although I wasn't using any other such
programs at the time.

However, ALSA doesn't shut down properly when I shut the computer down,
but it does when I run "/etc/rc.d/init.d/alsa stop", which I thought was
the same thing?

The second problem involves copying CDs.  My CD burner seems to have been
automagically installed and appears in the list of possibles in xcdroast.
Bad news is I get this error when I try to read the tracks off an Audio
CD:

recording 4440.00666 seconds stereo with 16 bits @ 44100.0 Hz
->'/home/jon/track-01'...
0%Fatal error: ?did not drop group privilege.
child reader sem request failed

Needless to say nothing is extracted.  It may have something (everything?)
to do with these errors I get when I start xcdroast:

** WARNING **: Installation problem? No set-uid bit on /usr/bin/mkisofs
** WARNING **: Installation problem? No set-uid bit on /usr/bin/readcd
** WARNING **: Installation problem? No set-uid bit on /usr/bin/cdda2wav

Not quite sure what I'm supposed to do about it...

And a slightly more minor problem: I can't transfer my old 31.2Mb inbox
file from my laptop to my new desktop (by FTP), it says "I/O error".  It
transfers about 25Mb before giving up.  I think it might well be a local
problem, but the Inbox file is fine when read under KMail on my laptop.

Sorry to bamboozle everyone with all my linux problems, but hopefully
that's what this list is here for :-P  May I suggest that you reply to
each problem with a suitable subject (ie. break it off into a new
thread), to help me deal with the influx of help I am bound to receive
;-)

Any help much appreciated...

Jon



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School of Chemistry
University of Exeter


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