Over many incarnations of Lux, I’ve never got sound to work on ANY of several machines except one, where I ran XP and Suse9.x on it in VMWare. (Had numerous other problems, so I went away again).
Today, I tried the CD Fast ver of Suse and strangely got the intro voice for Amarok, quite clearly,but volume low.
But, nothing else works! Not video, not wav, not mid, not system sounds. EXCEPT for the test suggested here : speaker-test -c2 -l5 -twav
A longer one failed except for the following text only output:
Playback device is plug:front
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
WAV file(s)
Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
Buffer size range from 64 to 16384
Period size range from 32 to 8192
Using max buffer size 16384
Periods = 4
was set period_size = 4096
was set buffer_size = 16384
0 - Front Left
(NO AUDIO OUTPUT).
Please help with these q’s:
Are there types of audio file that won’t play in Lux/SUSE (e.g. midi)?
Does running from the trial CD make any difference here?
The default is Amarok, would another program be any different in actual execution?
How can it play only SOMETIMES/ some things?
This is the closest I’ve ever got to a fully working Linux system in all the years since Mandrake.
My ambition is have a VBox running XP in Linux which would give me everything I need:
Able to run DragonDictate (Sound vital)
Dreamweaver (Don’t EVER want to try and learn anything else…)
Test Website in I.E. (For the masses who maybe one day will pay me HAH!)
AND… BE SECURE
Cheers?
OS: Linux 2.6.27.7-9-default i686
Current user: linux@linux
System: openSUSE 11.1 (i586)
KDE: 4.1.3 (KDE 4.1.3) “release 4.9”
ASUS P5GC-MX M/Bd XP SP2 2G Ram
With respect to openSUSE (and I do not know what you mean by Lux/SUSE, so this may not be your answer):
openSUSE as packaged by Novell/SuSE-GmbH will not play the majority of audio and video apps, because they are proprietary and openSUSE as packaged by Novell/SuSE-GmbH do not support proprietary apps/codecs. But there are many 3rd party packaged apps/codecs for openSUSE that can be installed to play such proprietary codecs.
yes, it makes a BIG difference … Installing apps on a liveCD means one runs out of memory quickly, and as soon as the power is switched OFF the work done to install/configure is lost.
Amarok as packaged by Novell/SuSE-GmbH is crippled for most multimedia (as most multimedia is proprietary). One needs to replace the Novell/SuSE-GmbH packaged amarok with the Packman packaged Amarok, plus replace the Novell/SuSE-GmbH packaged libxine1 with the packman packaged version, and add other Packman packaged apps such as Amarok-xine, Amarok-packman, libffmpeg0 (to install more codecs), w32codec-all (to install more codecs), … etc …
Some codecs are not proprietary and will play. Most are proprietary and will NOT play on an “as packaged” openSUSE. But with 3rd party packaged apps and 3rd party packaged codecs (from packman) almost all multimedia can be played.
Hi there, thanks for the fast reply!
Lux=shorthand for other versions.
UNfortunately it is an answer!
But there are many 3rd party packaged apps/codecs for openSUSE that can be installed to play such proprietary codecs.
OH, been thru this problem with Luxes many, many times before. I think this is the main reason for the small uptake of Linux over the years, it certainly is not for tyros. The thought of looking for and installing many bits and pieces again…
yes, it makes a BIG difference … Installing apps on a liveCD means one runs out of memory quickly, and as soon as the power is switched OFF the work done to install/configure is lost.
I was actually querying whether the Live-cd itself could make a difference - and obviously it sure can after facing installing all the missing bits.
The clue was that the Amarok intro did play (meaning it was all connecting up ok) and yet nothing else worked!
This might be the missing info of all those years …
But facing the troubles that CLI has caused me over the years and never being able to make the package installers work manually anyway… for two years I’ve been trying to get help on many Boards just to install Asus M/Bd drivers without success - despite many helpers advice …
I’ll go look at doing a full install and see how/where to get proprietary drivers/programs.
Although I’ll need to read up on the problems some users have had I noticed while trying to install from Live-Cd where partitions have been trashed.
If you get to the state where you have internet access and you want to update your multimedia, the FIRST thing you should do (in fact the 1st thing you should do after getting a GUI and getting Internet) is to update the repositories on your Software Package Manager. There is guidance here for that: Repositories/11.1 - openSUSE-Community
Stick with ONLY oss, non-oss, update, and Packman repositories, and do not add others. ONLY add others for specific reasons and for brief times (remove after) and only add others if you know the risks and know how to fix the problems that can happen from having too many repos. New users typically can not solve such problems. In fact many average users can not.
Once you have those 4 repositories in place, it is a simple matter to update one’s multimedia with Packman applications and codecs, replacing limited Novell/SuSE-GmbH packaged openSUSE versions as appropriate.
