Re: Audio player error (amarok)

2005-10-13 Thread Jeremy Merritt
> Marc is correct. I had the same problem. With the > 2.4 kernel you must find > the correct modules and load them. I never did get > ALSA to work properly > under the 2.4 kernel. So, I am not the right person > to help further. I > solved my problems by moving to the 2.6 kernel, > which, as M

Re: Audio player error (amarok)

2005-10-13 Thread Jeremy Merritt
alsaconf returns:modinfo: snd: no module by that name foundmodinfo: snd: no module by that name foundmodinfo: snd: no module by that name foundUnloading ALSA sound driver modules: (none loaded).Building card database... modinfo: snd-opl3sa2: no module by that name foundmodinfo: snd-cs4236: n

Re: Audio player error (amarok)

2005-10-12 Thread Jeremy Merritt
--- Roger Creasy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have you run alsaconf? > > Roger > alsaconf returns: modinfo: snd: no module by that name found modinfo: snd: no module by that name found modinfo: snd: no module by that name found Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: (none loaded). Buildin

Re: Audio player error (amarok)

2005-10-12 Thread Jeremy Merritt
> > > > 'cat /proc/asound/cards' returns "No such file or > > directory" --- marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's because you don't have a soundcard assigned > to ALSA - which is > what Gstreamer was telling you earlier, but it's > best to check. > > Open the Control Centre/Sound & Mul

Re: Audio player error (amarok)

2005-10-11 Thread Jeremy Merritt
> > After doing this, I did as you described. The > message > > returned in amarok is: > > > > [GStreamer Error] ALSA device "default" does not > exist > That's pretty clear. What does > # cat /proc/asound/cards > have to say? Sorry for the top post. 'cat /proc/asound/cards' returns "No suc

Re: Audio player error (amarok)

2005-10-11 Thread Jeremy Merritt
After doing this, I did as you described. The message returned in amarok is: [GStreamer Error] ALSA device "default" does not exist --- marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The default gstreamer package in amarok is OSS. > Remove it - why not? - > and install the ALSA version (gstreamer0.8-alsa

Re: Audio player error (amarok)

2005-10-10 Thread Jeremy Merritt
When I use XMMS's ALSA driver, I get a message that says: "Couldn't open audio. Please check that: your soundcard is configured properly, you have the correct output plugin selected, and no other program is blocking the soundcard." ...when attempting to playback. Amarok has several engines to u

Audio player error (amarok)

2005-10-08 Thread Jeremy Merritt
I have recently been having an error with several audio players, including amarok and xmms. Amarok produces the following error message: [GStreamer error] Could not open device '/dev/dsp' for writing. ** gstosselementc(752): gst_osselement_open_audio /root/bin system error: Resource temporari

Synaptic Package Manager vs. RPM

2005-10-06 Thread Jeremy Merritt
I started using Debian in the past 2 months after using another Linux distro for a long time. The other distro relies on RPM for its package management, with the consequence of the user having to go through "dependency hell" on a regular basis. I have been amazed at the size of the Synaptic Package

Re: GRUB loader error message (Thanks Alvin)

2005-10-03 Thread Jeremy Merritt
. Merritt --- Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Jeremy Merritt wrote: > > > Windoze is installed on /dev/hda1 > > k > > > /dev/hda1 * 1243319543041 > 7 > > HPFS/NTFS > > k

Re: GRUB loader error message

2005-10-03 Thread Jeremy Merritt
Thank you sir, I will give that a try.Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Jeremy Merritt wrote:> Windoze is installed on /dev/hda1k> /dev/hda1 * 1 2433 19543041 7> HPFS/NTFSk .. that agrees with your prior statement> /dev/hda2 2434 4865 19535040 f> W

Re: GRUB loader error message

2005-10-02 Thread Jeremy Merritt
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeremy Merritt wrote: > > > I was having trouble getting the grub loader to > work > > on my machine after having to re-install Windoze > XP. > > Finally I got the grub menu to come up but Debian > will > > not load properly

Re: GRUB loader error message

2005-10-02 Thread Jeremy Merritt
ended partition. I apparently overlooked this. (?) TX for your input. Still trying to figure it out... --- Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi ya jeremy > > On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Jeremy Merritt wrote: > > more grub fun :-) > > > /dev/hdb2 is the location

one correction to previous message

2005-10-02 Thread Jeremy Merritt
/root/grub should be /boot/grub, of course. Tx __ Yahoo! for Good Donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

GRUB loader error message

2005-10-02 Thread Jeremy Merritt
I was having trouble getting the grub loader to work on my machine after having to re-install Windoze XP. Finally I got the grub menu to come up but Debian will not load properly. /dev/hdb2 is the location of /root/grub The commands for loading Debian are listed as follows: root (hd1,1) ker

Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-27 Thread Jeremy Merritt
Wow, what a great explanation. I have read through it, but am going to do another to make sure it's all taken in. Thanks. --- Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeremy Merritt wrote: > > I have been having a problem getting my GRUB > > bootloader to return on

Re: GRUB problem

2005-09-27 Thread Jeremy Merritt
If having multiple partitions is the problem or part of the problem, how do I make /dev/hda2 bootable and make the others not bootable? Is that the only thing that needs to be done in addition to the other steps? --- Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeremy Merritt wrote: >

GRUB problem

2005-09-27 Thread Jeremy Merritt
I have been having a problem getting my GRUB bootloader to return on boot. No matter what I do, it keeps going to XP. I consulted with other people on this list and got some good input. But have run into a dead end again. Can someone analyze these steps and tell me what I'm doing wrong, or what I n

Re: GRUB bootloader issue

2005-09-25 Thread Jeremy Merritt
x). --- Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun September 25 2005 04:32 pm, Jeremy Merritt > wrote: > > I need help figuring out what is going on with my > > Debian / GRUB bootloader. Because of some Windoze > > issues, I had to re-install XP on my machine. It

GRUB bootloader issue

2005-09-25 Thread Jeremy Merritt
I need help figuring out what is going on with my Debian / GRUB bootloader. Because of some Windoze issues, I had to re-install XP on my machine. It discarded the grub loader and now you can only boot to XP from hda1. I consulted with another Debian user who said to simply run 'grub-install /dev/hd