Various software problems

Hey guys,

I’m new to here and to linux, having changed over about 2 weeks ago. I’ve had a lot of trouble installing a variety of software and am really starting to despair and regret changing over. I appreciate that it’s not the right way to go about things, but would be really grateful if anyone could help me out with a walkthrough for the installation processes of any of the following software on opensuse11.4 64-bit (I have tried everything I can to no avail):

Canon ip2700 series drivers
Creative Sound Blaster X-fi drivers
Skype
iTunes

On 2011-06-18 12:36, skins345669 wrote:
>
> Hey guys,
>
> I’m new to here and to linux, having changed over about 2 weeks ago.

This sub-forum is not for requesting help. Here is where you submit howtos
for peer review. Where you explain to us how to do things.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

Apologies. Could I ask that one of the moderators relocate the thread

Next time, please read first (from top to botom and from left to right) before you post. It is in your own interest that your question goes into the (sub)forum where people that know about you subject are looking. Asking in the wrong place would imho be a guarantee for no answers at all. I hope you undestand that.

For nntp users, this thread has been moved from the How-To area to the ‘various software problems’ forum area.

I’ve quoted the entire initial post so that NNTP users can see the full post in this moved thread area.

Your sound drivers are included with the basic openSUSE installation. The sound driver is called the ‘alsa’ sound driver. openSUSE-11.4 also has a ‘layer’ between the alsa sound driver and one’s multimedia application called ‘pulse audio’ which provides control over directing the audio to different applications/devices and also control of volume on a per-application basis.

If you have any specific audio problems, please read our multimedia stickie and also post for help in our multimedia area.

For Skype, take a read here:
SDB:Skype - openSUSE

iTunes ? Is that not the proprietary apple software ? There is no GNU/Linux version to the best of my knowledge. You could try gtkpod instead.

Take a look at my blog: Interfacing iPod Touch 3G to openSUSE-11.3 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums … yes it was for an iPod Touch 3G and not an iPhone nor an iPad, but you do not state what Apple hardware you need the iTunes app for and there may be something in there of interest.

On 06/19/2011 07:06 PM, oldcpu wrote:

thanks for quoting that for us!

> skins345669;2354910 Wrote:
>> Canon ip2700 series drivers

skins, in the future please put each individual problem in its own
thread, with a descriptive title–because some of us look for (say)
posts with printer problems–which is not me, and who knows if any of
the printer gurus will want to look in on “Various software
problems”…see how that goes?

>> Creative Sound Blaster X-fi drivers

i do those either…(but, if oldcpu talks listen)

>> Skype

see here: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Skype

> For nntp users, this thread has been moved from the How-To area to the
> ‘various software problems’ forum area.
>
> I’ve quoted the entire initial post so that NNTP users can see the full
> post in this moved thread area.

again THANKS for that…as you know it is the only way we can
participate with moved thread…


dd
http://is.gd/bpoMD

Apologies for causing problems. I realise that I would have benefited from looking into how to post properly etc. but I am growing enormously frustrated by this situation and really just want a way out.

Thanks for all your help so far and I hope we can eventually sort this out.

I’ve just followed the instructions at SDB:Skype - openSUSE again, as before. The install didn’t start automatically when the download finished so I used package installer. Skype appears to start normally, before promptly closing itself after about 3-5 seconds. When running it from terminal, I get the message:

Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-open.c: 582: _dl_open: Assertion `_dl_debug_initialize (0, args.nsid)->r_state == RT_CONSISTENT’ failed!

Where do I go from here?

What is the output of


rpm -q libasound2-32bit xorg-x11-libXv-32bit xorg-x11-libs-32bit libqt4-x11-32bit libpng12-0-32bit skype

and


zypper lr -d

Do you have basic sound functioning yet ? Your post about Creative Sound Blaster XFi suggested to me you may not have it working.

I’ve read of a google talk plugin causing this, but not skype.

First one returns:

libasound2-32bit-1.0.24.1-4.7.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-libXv-32bit-7.6-6.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-libs-32bit-7.6-16.1.x86_64
libqt4-x11-32bit-4.7.1-7.1.x86_64
libpng12-0-32bit-1.2.44-7.1.x86_64
skype-2.2.0.35-suse111.i586

Second returns:

| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service

–±--------±--------±--------±--------±---------±-------±-------------------------------------------------------------±-------
1 | Non-OSS | Non-OSS | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.4/repo/non-oss |
2 | OSS | OSS | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.4/repo/oss |
3 | Update | Update | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /update/11.4

I do have basic sound but there are features of this sound card which are not functioning as they did when running it in windows.

On 06/19/2011 11:06 PM, skins345669 wrote:

> Where do I go from here?

(because i can’t help you more with this) for the Skype problem i’d
suggest you start a new thread with a descriptive subject

be sure and mention your operating system/version, 32/64 bit, and your
desktop environment and version…

and, the version/bit of the Skype downloaded as well as the error you
received…oh, and confirm you did follow the special instructions for
64 bit, if you installed that…


dd
http://is.gd/bpoMD

Did you previous try to install google-talk ? Because the error you noted previous has me puzzled.

Hmmm … I confess, I did not install skype the wiki guide way.

Try it instead the way I used to install skyp.

To do that, try these commands with root permissions and your pc connected to the internet:


rpm -e skype
zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Lord_LT/openSUSE_11.4/ skype1
# note there is a space between /openSUSE_11.4/ and skype1 in previous line
zypper in skype
zypper rr skype1

and see if that works any better.

That last command is very important.

I will now stop support in this thread for Skype as i see you have started a new thread in ‘applications’ : Trouble with Skype 2.2 Beta for Linux on Suse11.4 64bit

Note forum etiquette is to have only ONE help thread going on for a specific problem.

On 2011-06-19 23:36, skins345669 wrote:
> # | Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI
> | Service

Please remember when you post computer text to do so between code tags:
advanced editor, #. It is very important.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)