Codecs e media players
by Marcelo Magno T. Sales
People,
I have some video files here that can be played with mplayer, but not with
xine nor kaffeine. Why is that? Shouldn't any media player be able to play
any video file if the right codec is installed?
I have the w32codec package from atrpms installed (it places the codecs
in /usr/lib/win32) and i have softlinks pointing /usr/local/lib/codecs
and /usr/lib/codecs to /usr/lib/win32.
Thanks,
Marcelo
17 years, 2 months
Re: Suspend bug
by David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)
Alan <alan(a)lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> the wall wart and assumed all was good. Yesterday I found the laptop in
> > some sort of "suspended" condition with the caps lock light blinking,
> > other lights (power, touchpad, etc.) on but the system totally
>
>
> That's a kernel panic indicator
>
> Do you have a sequence of actions that repeats the problem and causes it
> to occur again ?
What I recall doing is:
1) ifdown the wired LAN connection.
2) ifup the wireless.
3) Unplug the wall wart.
4) My wife accessed some stuff on her USB flash drive (automounted,
unmounted through the GUI).
5) Return system to wall wart.
6) ifdown wireless.
7) ifup LAN.
I can try repeating this. Let me know.
This was reported by log watch:
WARNING: Kernel Errors Present
aer: probe of 0000:00:04.0:pcie01 failed with error 1 ...: 1 Time(s)
It seems to be the only thing interesting that was logged but this is
from the restart on the 31st. lspci tells me:
00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge (prog-if 00
[Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] Express Root Port (Slot-) IRQ 0
Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit-
Queue=0/0 Enable+
Capabilities: [b0] #0d [0000]
Capabilities: [b8] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Looking at /var/log/messages, it looks like the system packed up at
about on the 31st:
Jan 31 12:45:52 fubar ntpd[19060]: sendto(192.168.255.254) (fd=18):
Invalid argument
Jan 31 13:02:56 fubar ntpd[19060]: sendto(192.168.255.254) (fd=18):
Invalid argument
Jan 31 13:16:24 fubar dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.255.254
port 67
Jan 31 13:16:25 fubar dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.255.254
Jan 31 13:16:25 fubar dhclient: bound to 192.168.0.181 -- renewal in
8347 seconds.
Jan 31 15:19:48 fubar syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
Jan 31 15:19:48 fubar kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Jan 31 15:19:48 fubar kernel: Linux version 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6
(brewbuilder(a)ls20-bc2-14.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.
1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-51)) #1 SMP Wed Jan 10 18:50:56 EST 2007
Jan 31 15:19:48 fubar kernel: Command line: ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
Apparently, ntpd doesn't like having the interface its using switched so
ntpd was conveniently giving the "Invalid argument" message every
fifteen minutes or so from the time I removed the system from AC power
until it barfed. Also, acpid has:
[Tue Jan 30 20:59:41 2007] received event "ac_adapter ACAD 00000001
00000000"
[Tue Jan 30 20:59:41 2007] notifying client 2869[68:68]
[Tue Jan 30 20:59:41 2007] notifying client 6358[0:500]
[Tue Jan 30 20:59:41 2007] completed event "ac_adapter ACAD 00000001
00000000"
[Tue Jan 30 20:59:41 2007] received event "battery BAT1 00000080 00000001"
[Tue Jan 30 20:59:41 2007] notifying client 2869[68:68]
[Tue Jan 30 20:59:41 2007] notifying client 6358[0:500]
[Tue Jan 30 20:59:41 2007] completed event "battery BAT1 00000080 00000001"
[Tue Jan 30 20:59:41 2007] received event "processor CPU0 00000080 00000002"
[Tue Jan 30 20:59:41 2007] notifying client 2869[68:68]
[Tue Jan 30 20:59:41 2007] notifying client 6358[0:500]
[Tue Jan 30 20:59:41 2007] completed event "processor CPU0 00000080
00000002"
[Tue Jan 30 21:21:34 2007] received event "ac_adapter ACAD 00000000
00000001"
[Tue Jan 30 21:21:34 2007] notifying client 2869[68:68]
[Tue Jan 30 21:21:34 2007] notifying client 6358[0:500]
[Tue Jan 30 21:21:34 2007] completed event "ac_adapter ACAD 00000000
00000001"
[Tue Jan 30 21:21:34 2007] received event "battery BAT1 00000080 00000001"
[Tue Jan 30 21:21:34 2007] notifying client 2869[68:68]
[Tue Jan 30 21:21:34 2007] notifying client 6358[0:500]
[Tue Jan 30 21:21:34 2007] completed event "battery BAT1 00000080 00000001"
[Tue Jan 30 21:21:34 2007] received event "processor CPU0 00000080 00000000"
[Tue Jan 30 21:21:34 2007] notifying client 2869[68:68]
[Tue Jan 30 21:21:34 2007] notifying client 6358[0:500]
[Tue Jan 30 21:21:34 2007] completed event "processor CPU0 00000080
00000000"
[Wed Jan 31 15:19:55 2007] starting up
[Wed Jan 31 15:19:55 2007] 1 rule loaded
[Wed Jan 31 15:20:09 2007] client connected from 2945[68:68]
...
Let me know if you need any additional information. If it's lengthy,
feel free to go off list.
Cheers,
Dave
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17 years, 2 months
Suspend bug
by David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)
Hi All -
I had an oddity occur yesterday. Two days ago, my wife need to use
my laptop briefly so I unplugged it from its wall wart and moved it to
where she could access it. After she was done I plugged it back in to
the wall wart and assumed all was good. Yesterday I found the laptop in
some sort of "suspended" condition with the caps lock light blinking,
other lights (power, touchpad, etc.) on but the system totally
unresponsive. I tried some of the resume actions that normally bring it
back from say closing the lid but eventually had to reboot using the
power button. Normally, the system will not go into suspend when it's
attached to the wall wart. I did not see this behavior when I tested
suspend to RAM by unplugging the wall wart and holding the lid button
down or selecting suspend.
I consider this to be a bug but I'm not sure which component it's
against. The bug is the system state should have gone back to "running
on AC power" and not even attempted to suspend. I will BZ this if there
isn't an existing bug report. Any suggestions as to which component the
bug should be against?
The laptop is an HP Pavilion (zv6015) model running FC6 x86_64 with
all updates applied. If anyone has any suggestions as to how to get the
system out of this state, I'd also find that useful.
Thanks,
Dave
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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
-- Ambrose Bierce
17 years, 2 months
Re: [Fwd: Fw: Go Colts]
by Jim
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17 years, 2 months
problems recording DVD
by Martin Marques
Hi all, I'm having some trouble trying to record DVDs -RW and +RW. CDs
get burned OK, but not DVDs. All this on a FC3 system.
Here's the info:
# uname -a
Linux linus 2.6.12-1.1376_FC3 #1 Fri Aug 26 23:27:26 EDT 2005 i686
athlon i386 GNU/Linux
# dmesg | grep DVD
hdc: SONY DVD RW DW-G120A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: 50X CD-ROM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(66)
# dvd+rw-format -lead-out /dev/hdc
* DVD±RW/-RAM format utility by <appro(a)fy.chalmers.se>, version 4.10.
* 4.7GB DVD+RW media detected.
* formatting /:-[ CLOSE SESSION failed with SK=5h/ASC=30h/ACQ=06h]:
Wrong medium type
growisofs also gives me a "Wrong medium type". All this was done with an
"Imation DVD+RW|4x".
I tried googleing the problem but didn't find anything that would help
me with this problem.
Any ideas?
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17 years, 2 months
gphoto?
by David Jansen
Just wondering, looking for a way to connect a camera that isn't
recognized by applications that make use of gphoto2, I saw this in
the description of the gphoto2 rpm:
The gPhoto2 project is a universal, free application and library
framework that lets you download images from several different
digital camera models, including the newer models with USB
connections. Note that
a) for some older camera models you must use the old "gphoto" package.
b) for USB mass storage models you must use the driver in the kernel
But: the old "gphoto" package is not in Fedora Core/Extras .
Is this just an error in the description? or is there really still a
separate gphoto package out there somewhere?
David Jansen
17 years, 2 months
Fedora livecd: Cloning a HD install
by Lars Bjørndal
I've used Dirk Westfal's article which describes how to create a
Fedora 4 livecd, to create my own customized livecd. It worked fine up
to FC5 with kernel 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5. While trying to boot a FC6
livecd with the latest 2.6.19 kernel, it didn't boot.
Do anyone knows if the RPMs that are used in this article are updated,
and may be downloaded from anywhere?
Unfortunately the livecd-creator seems not to be able to do what I
want, or is it?
Lars
17 years, 2 months
Yum Extender 1.9.2 Devel cosmetic bug issue
by David Hunter
When I am updating/installing packages using this version of Yum Extender,
the overall progress bar increases, however, the progress bar for individual
packages does not increment nor does the % of download for the package
increase untill the package is fully downloaded. Bug or known issue?
Many thanks.
--
David Hunter
17 years, 2 months
/dev/video0
by Alain PORTAL
Hi,
Can somebody tell me how is created this device?
When I'm connecting my webcam, nothing happends but in messages.log:
kernel: usb 4-1.4: USB disconnect, address 3
kernel: usb 4-1.4: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
kernel: usb 4-1.4: not running at top speed; connect to a high speed hub
kernel: usb 4-1.4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
kernel: 4:3:1: cannot set freq 0 to ep 0x86
kernel: 4:3:2: cannot set freq 0 to ep 0x86
When I load the module ("modprobe gspca"), new in messages.log:
kernel: usbcore: registered new driver gspca
kernel: /var/tmp/bach-build/BUILD/gspcav1-20060925/gspca_core.c: gspca driver
01.00.04
And always no /dev/video0
I create it ("mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0; chmod go+wr /dev/video0"), verify
[root@lns-bzn-59-82-252-142-2 ~]# ls -l /dev/video0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 81, 0 nov 16 01:45 /dev/video0
and run an application
[root@lns-bzn-59-82-252-142-2 ~]# xawtv
This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.18-1.2239.fc5)
WARNING: v4l-conf is compiled without DGA support.
can't open /dev/video0: No such device
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
v4l2: open /dev/video0: Aucun périphérique de ce type
v4l2: open /dev/video0: Aucun périphérique de ce type
v4l: open /dev/video0: Aucun périphérique de ce type
no video grabber device available
Where is the problem?
I'm loosing my hair...
Regards,
Alain
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17 years, 2 months
Re: webcam support
by R. G. Newbury
> Subject: Re: webcam support/hardware compatibility list
>
>> I'd like to buy a webcam that has good support in fedora, preferably
>> without any kernel patches/proprietary drivers. Any suggestions?
You might want to consider instead buying an internet webcam such as the
Dlink DCS-900 or DCS-G900. Works over a network cable, can be
individually addressed, and you can even do so remotely, if you have
DYNDNS or the equivalent or a static IP address.
The cost is a little higher than the cheap cameras, but the quality is
very good and the advantages are worth it.
Geoff
17 years, 2 months