October 2002 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Re: [Wlug] microphone

by Karl Hiramoto

cat /dev/dsp this is raw sound data there are docs out there on how to process it This usually works to record then play back your data cat /dev/dsp > /tmp/sound.dat cat /tmp/sound.dat >> /dev/dsp I'm sure there is a doc out there on the format of this data. On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Karl Hiramoto wrote: > > I've seen it working on other computers, a friend of mine at BU was > using on an AI speech recognition project. > > They were just opening /dev/dsp and reading from it. > > Can't you find something on google to solve the issue? > > > > On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Wes Allen wrote: > > > Yeah, > > Come to think of it, no computer I've ever used with Linux has had the > > microphone working. > > > > I'll have to try the alsa list...thanks! > > > > Wes > > > > On Thursday 31 October 2002 2:06 pm, Gregory Avedissian wrote: > > > OK, since nobody is answering you, I'll take a stab at it. > > > > > > Yes, I have the same problem. Can't record from the microphone or from > > > the stereo, which is plugged into the computer. Doesn't work with SuSE > > > 7.2 on a fast computer with the onboard soundcard, and it didn't work > > > with Redhat 7.0 on a slow computer with my Ensonic sound card, either. I > > > can record from CD at least three ways without any problem. And I can > > > record from my stereo or from the microphone if I use a common > > > proprietary operating system that's four years old. > > > > > > I suspect the problem is in the options section of /etc/modules.conf, > > > but I've never pursued it, and I don't know what any of those options > > > mean. There's a mailing list for the ALSA project, and I've gotten good > > > help from them in the past. They might know. > > > > > > I'll show you my modules.conf if you'll show me yours. > > > > > > Greg > > > > > > Wesley Allen wrote: > > > > Hi gang, any ideas why my microphone wouldn't be working in linux. It's > > > > set as the recording device, but isn't recording. > > > > > > > > My sound card uses the maestro3 module (ES1988 Allegro-1 card). I'm > > > > doing a search, but was wondering if any of you have had this problem. > > > > > > > > Wes > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Wlug mailing list > > > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > > > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wlug mailing list > > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > > > > -- ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø Karl Hiramoto <karl(a)hiramoto.org> Work: 978-425-2090 ext 25 Cell: 508-517-4819 Personal web page: http://karl.hiramoto.org/ Freedom: http://www.technojihad.com/ Zoop Productions: http://www.zoop.org/ KTEQ Rapid City: http://www.kteq.org/ AOL IM ID = KarlH420 Yahoo_IM = karl_hiramoto ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. -- Dylan Thomas

Oct. 31, 2002

Re: [Wlug] microphone

by Karl Hiramoto

I've seen it working on other computers, a friend of mine at BU was using on an AI speech recognition project. They were just opening /dev/dsp and reading from it. Can't you find something on google to solve the issue? On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Wes Allen wrote: > Yeah, > Come to think of it, no computer I've ever used with Linux has had the > microphone working. > > I'll have to try the alsa list...thanks! > > Wes > > On Thursday 31 October 2002 2:06 pm, Gregory Avedissian wrote: > > OK, since nobody is answering you, I'll take a stab at it. > > > > Yes, I have the same problem. Can't record from the microphone or from > > the stereo, which is plugged into the computer. Doesn't work with SuSE > > 7.2 on a fast computer with the onboard soundcard, and it didn't work > > with Redhat 7.0 on a slow computer with my Ensonic sound card, either. I > > can record from CD at least three ways without any problem. And I can > > record from my stereo or from the microphone if I use a common > > proprietary operating system that's four years old. > > > > I suspect the problem is in the options section of /etc/modules.conf, > > but I've never pursued it, and I don't know what any of those options > > mean. There's a mailing list for the ALSA project, and I've gotten good > > help from them in the past. They might know. > > > > I'll show you my modules.conf if you'll show me yours. > > > > Greg > > > > Wesley Allen wrote: > > > Hi gang, any ideas why my microphone wouldn't be working in linux. It's > > > set as the recording device, but isn't recording. > > > > > > My sound card uses the maestro3 module (ES1988 Allegro-1 card). I'm > > > doing a search, but was wondering if any of you have had this problem. > > > > > > Wes > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wlug mailing list > > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wlug mailing list > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > -- ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø Karl Hiramoto <karl(a)hiramoto.org> Work: 978-425-2090 ext 25 Cell: 508-517-4819 Personal web page: http://karl.hiramoto.org/ Freedom: http://www.technojihad.com/ Zoop Productions: http://www.zoop.org/ KTEQ Rapid City: http://www.kteq.org/ AOL IM ID = KarlH420 Yahoo_IM = karl_hiramoto ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. -- Dylan Thomas

Oct. 31, 2002

Re: [Wlug] microphone

by Wes Allen

Yeah, Come to think of it, no computer I've ever used with Linux has had the microphone working. I'll have to try the alsa list...thanks! Wes On Thursday 31 October 2002 2:06 pm, Gregory Avedissian wrote: > OK, since nobody is answering you, I'll take a stab at it. > > Yes, I have the same problem. Can't record from the microphone or from > the stereo, which is plugged into the computer. Doesn't work with SuSE > 7.2 on a fast computer with the onboard soundcard, and it didn't work > with Redhat 7.0 on a slow computer with my Ensonic sound card, either. I > can record from CD at least three ways without any problem. And I can > record from my stereo or from the microphone if I use a common > proprietary operating system that's four years old. > > I suspect the problem is in the options section of /etc/modules.conf, > but I've never pursued it, and I don't know what any of those options > mean. There's a mailing list for the ALSA project, and I've gotten good > help from them in the past. They might know. > > I'll show you my modules.conf if you'll show me yours. > > Greg > > Wesley Allen wrote: > > Hi gang, any ideas why my microphone wouldn't be working in linux. It's > > set as the recording device, but isn't recording. > > > > My sound card uses the maestro3 module (ES1988 Allegro-1 card). I'm > > doing a search, but was wondering if any of you have had this problem. > > > > Wes > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wlug mailing list > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug -- ------ This message may be signed using GPG, for my public key please send me a message with "Key Request" in the subject line.

Oct. 31, 2002

Re: [Wlug] microphone

by Gregory Avedissian

OK, since nobody is answering you, I'll take a stab at it. Yes, I have the same problem. Can't record from the microphone or from the stereo, which is plugged into the computer. Doesn't work with SuSE 7.2 on a fast computer with the onboard soundcard, and it didn't work with Redhat 7.0 on a slow computer with my Ensonic sound card, either. I can record from CD at least three ways without any problem. And I can record from my stereo or from the microphone if I use a common proprietary operating system that's four years old. I suspect the problem is in the options section of /etc/modules.conf, but I've never pursued it, and I don't know what any of those options mean. There's a mailing list for the ALSA project, and I've gotten good help from them in the past. They might know. I'll show you my modules.conf if you'll show me yours. Greg Wesley Allen wrote: > Hi gang, any ideas why my microphone wouldn't be working in linux. It's > set as the recording device, but isn't recording. > > My sound card uses the maestro3 module (ES1988 Allegro-1 card). I'm > doing a search, but was wondering if any of you have had this problem. > > Wes > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > >

Oct. 31, 2002

DNS Resolve from the Internet

by jose sanchez

Hello: Please help me get this straight. I am confused. I have a dnscache running at home on a DMZ network. I would like to know if I can have friends on other networks (in the Internet) to use my server as their resolver server? I have a firewall in place but, I'm directing all the udp traffic to port 53 to my dns-server; also my dnscache server is accepting connections from those networks ip's. Can I do this or do I need to register ($$$$$) a the dns-server? Thanks in advance for your help.... ===== "An ounce of gold cannot buy an ounce of time." - Anonymous www.whmicro.com __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/

Oct. 31, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Sendmail 8.11.6 (was building RH7.3 after hack)

by Theo Van Dinter

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 08:53:05AM -0500, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: > 1. sendmail is broken up into 2 separate processes for security > reasons. One is outgoing, the other is incoming. that's sendmail 8.12. 8.11 is still the single monolithic sendmail. > 2. /etc/sendmail.cf is no longer used. There are several files in > /etc/mail to replace /etc/sendmail.cf. Actually it's still just sendmail.cf for the daemon, but it is under /etc/mail now. There's also a submit.cf for the "client" portion. What are the errors that are being seen? That wasn't specifically mentioned in the original post. There was something about the "MX loops back to me" thing, but I don't know if that's the error you're seeing or not. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "A way out of financial mess is discovered as if by magic!" - stupid fortune cookie

Oct. 31, 2002

Re: [Wlug] rpm lock-up

by Bill Mills-Curran

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Josh Huber wrote: > Bill Mills-Curran <subssn594(a)charter.net> writes: > > > Now, that user account can no longer do any rpm commands from any > > session -- it always hangs. You can kill -9 the existing rpm > > processes, but nothing I've tried helps until reboot. > > Perhaps there is some kind of stale lock file sitting around? > > I don't use rpm, but I'd suggest running strace on the rpm command to > see what the problem might be. > > strace rpm <args> > > -- > Josh Huber Josh, Just by coincidence, I just ran "strace -ppid" on the "locked-up" process. It's in a select/timeout loop. I just tried Charles Anderson's suggestion (his email came shortly after yours). That cured the lock-up. Now on to see if I can get something done... Thanks, Bill

Oct. 31, 2002

Re: [Wlug] microphone

by Bill Smith

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 15:35:06 -0500 (EST) Karl Hiramoto <karl(a)zoop.org> wrote: KH> cat /dev/dsp KH> KH> this is raw sound data there are docs out there on how to process KH> it KH> KH> This usually works to record then play back your data KH> KH> cat /dev/dsp > /tmp/sound.dat KH> cat /tmp/sound.dat >> /dev/dsp KH> KH> I'm sure there is a doc out there on the format of this data. if memory serves, it's something akin to .au .... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com He who spins a web of trickery must expect to end up caught. * TAG! v3.1 *

Oct. 31, 2002

Re: [Wlug] rpm lock-up

by Charles R. Anderson

Documented bug in rpm-4.1. To fix: kill -9 the hung rpm process rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* If it still hangs, repeat that process and add this step: rpm --rebuilddb On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 09:52:31AM -0500, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: subssn594> 2. Ctrl-C out. You won't get the shell prompt back. subssn594> Now, that user account can no longer do any rpm commands from any subssn594> session -- it always hangs. You can kill -9 the existing rpm subssn594> processes, but nothing I've tried helps until reboot. -- Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886

Oct. 31, 2002

Re: [Wlug] rpm lock-up

by Josh Huber

Bill Mills-Curran <subssn594(a)charter.net> writes: > Now, that user account can no longer do any rpm commands from any > session -- it always hangs. You can kill -9 the existing rpm > processes, but nothing I've tried helps until reboot. Perhaps there is some kind of stale lock file sitting around? I don't use rpm, but I'd suggest running strace on the rpm command to see what the problem might be. strace rpm <args> -- Josh Huber

Oct. 31, 2002