Sound,Video,gnome shell not working

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hi all,

I have Installed Opensuse 12.3 (GNOME)64 bit. I have installed all the codec,and ATI legacy drivers for my Graphic card HD4300. after installing ATI legacy GNOME shell stopped working and it is booting in fallback mode. i tried to play MP3 but no player started and no sound. same video not started. you tube video working fine with sound.

whats wrong with my system? how should i recover? how to uninstall ATI drivers and which one to reinstall?

how should i get my videos/DVD play also MP3?

how to get Gnome Shall back ?

please help me…:(:(:frowning:

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On Thu 11 Apr 2013 04:26:02 PM CDT, poision heart wrote:

hi all,

I have Installed Opensuse 12.3 (GNOME)64 bit. I have installed all the
codec,and ATI legacy drivers for my Graphic card HD4300. after
installing ATI legacy GNOME shell stopped working and it is booting in
fallback mode. i tried to play MP3 but no player started and no sound.
same video not started. you tube video working fine with sound.

whats wrong with my system? how should i recover? how to uninstall ATI
drivers and which one to reinstall?

how should i get my videos/DVD play also MP3?

how to get Gnome Shall back ?

please help me…:(:(:frowning:

Hi
The legacy drivers are not supported for openSUSE 12.3 and Xorg 1.13 so
you need to use the default oss radeon driver.

How did you install the legacy driver in the first place?

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As far as I know, the ATI Legacy driver doesn’t work on 12.3 because the included X server is too new.
So you must uninstall the driver again and use the “radeon” driver which is included in openSUSE by default… (don’t know how well it works with your card though)
To answer how you can uninstall it, we must first know: How did you install it?

And regarding your codec problem:
How do you try to open your files?
As the standard audio/video player in GNOME is Totem, and Totem uses gstreamer, please make sure that you have the following packages installed:

gstreamer-plugins-bad
gstreamer-plugins-bad-orig-addon
gstreamer-plugins-base
gstreamer-plugins-good
gstreamer-plugins-good-extra
gstreamer-plugins-ugly
gstreamer-plugins-ugly-orig-addon

And all of those should come from the Packman repository. (I suppose you have that configured, since you stated “I have installed all the codec”)

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A simple solution is to install vlc. Add the Packamn repo, open a terminal a type sudo zypper refresh and then sudo zypper in vlc vlc-codecs. For other players like Mplayer or Clementine you need to install gstreamer packages named good, bad (including bad addon) and ugly (including ugly addon).

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No. MPlayer doesn’t use gstreamer.
But you’re right about clementine…

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Yes, my bad here, for Mplayer, Smplayer or Umplayer one must install the package win32 that offers all the codecs that the player needs.

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No, that’s not true anymore, either!:wink: (Wouldn’t work on 64bit systems anyway…)
It (well, ffmpeg anyway, which is used by VLC and xine as well) just can use w32-codecs if they are installed.
But nowadays ffmpeg can play almost anything on its own, without the w32-codecs.

MPlayer includes it’s own copy of ffmpeg, so you don’t even have to have ffmpeg installed for MPlayer to work… (that’s why there’s no MPlayer in the standard openSUSE repos…)