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Re: CentOS] Skype on CentOS 5 - my microphone settings are incorrect
by Lanny Marcus 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

On 15 March 2008, Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com wrote: > It's not obvious from that. There is an alsa-users list at > alsa-user at lists.sourceforge.net. I had to go to them once with a problem and > found that they have detailed knowledge of a lot of sound cards. The > solution to my problem wasn't obvious either - and it was a matter of finding > the channel setting to record, so similar to yours. They were very helpful. in GNOME: System > Preferences > Volume Control > Options > Mic. Select There are two (2) options: Mic1 and Mic2 My headset has stereo headphones, but the microphone is not stereo. Is it normal, that I would see two (2) options for the microphone?

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Re: CentOS] Skype on CentOS 5 - my microphone settings are incorrect
by Lanny Marcus 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

On 15 March 2008, Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com wrote: <snip> <It's not obvious from that. There is an alsa-users list at <alsa-user at lists.sourceforge.net. I had to go to them once with a <problem and found that they have detailed knowledge of a lot of sound <cards. The solution to my problem wasn't obvious either - and it was a <matter of finding the channel setting to record, so similar to yours. <They were very helpful. Anne: Thank you for that suggestion! If I can't get this working with help from this ML, I will ask them for help! Lanny On 15 March 2008, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazqueznet at gmail.com wrote: <snip> >man alsamixer, /view mode controls Good suggestion! Thanks!

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Re: CentOS] Skype on CentOS 5 - my microphone settings are incorrect
by Lanny Marcus 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

On 15 March 2008, Johnny Hughes johnny at centos.org wrote: <snip> >In the Gnome mixer, make sure that the "Microphone" and the "capture" >microphone icons are NOT MUTED (a red is is muted) .. also change >devices to the OSS Mixer and in the capture tab, check the microphone >icon for microphone is also not muted there. Johnny: I think I have that OK. In the Skype Options for the Sound Card, I unchecked allow Skype to change the Mixer settings. Also, I took off the 20 dB boost for the mic. In Sound Preferences > Devices > Audio Conferencing > Sound Capture > I have it set to OSS. Am I correct, to have that set to OSS? When I did a test, I got this error message: gconfaudiosrc ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink profile=chat: Unable to open device /dev/dsp for recording: Device or resource busy When I try to do a test call, with the Skype robot, when they would play back what I have recorded, I get 2 beeps, with only 1 or 2 seconds in between them. When I try that on MS Windows, there is about 10 seconds where I can listen to what I have recorded. Your time and your help are greatly appreciated as are the countless hours you devote to CentOS! Lanny

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Re: CentOS] Skype on CentOS 5 - my microphone settings are incorrect
by Lanny Marcus 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

On 15 March 2008 Johnny Hughes johnny at centos.org wrote: Sat Mar 15 15:25:13 UTC 2008 >In the Gnome mixer, make sure that the "Microphone" and the "capture" >microphone icons are NOT MUTED (a red is is muted) .. also change >devices to the OSS Mixer and in the capture tab, check the microphone >icon for microphone is also not muted there. Johnny: Thank you for replying! I will check those things, ASAP and report back here! Lanny On 15 March 2008, Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com wrote: <snip> >Are you sure that there are no more channels to the right? (keyboard >arrows to navigate, 'M' to toggle muting.) Anne: That helped a lot! :-) Thank you! Below is for the mic from alsamixer. Lanny ┌──────────────────[AlsaMixer v1.0.12 (Press Escape to quit)]──────────────────┐ │ Card: Sound Fusion CS46xx │ │ Chip: Cirrus Logic CS4298 rev 3,Cirrus Logic CS4298 rev 3 │ │ View: [Playback] Capture All │ │ Item: Mic │ │ │ │ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ ┌──┐ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ < │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ > < │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ > < │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ > < │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ > < │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ > < │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ > │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │ │ pre 3D │▒▒│ │▒▒│ │▒▒│ Mic1 │▒▒│ │ │ ├──┤ ├──┤ ├──┤ ┌──┐ ├──┤ ┌──┐ │ │ │OO│ │OO│ │OO│ │OO│ │MM│ │MM│ │ │ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ └──┘ │ │ 100<>100 100<>100 100 100<>100 │ │ PCM Out Line CD < Mic >Mic Boos Mic Sele Video IEC958

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k3b doesn't burn video disk
by Anne Wilson 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

I create DVDs from camcorder output. In the past I've always just dragged the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders into k3b and the disk has burned successfully. On this new box I tried to do the same, but k3b says that it 'Found invalid entry in the VIDEO_TS folder (AUDIO_TS). That seems to be utter nonsense, if it means that AUDIO_TS is inside the folder VIDEO_TS. If it doesn't, AUDIO_TS is empty, as it always is for these videos. It has never been a problem in the past. Does anyone know the cause? Thanks Anne

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Naissance de fr.centos.org / Birth of fr.centos.org
by Fabian Arrotin 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

(For non native french speakers : that will be my only announce here in another language than english ;-) ) Le projet CentOS est heureux de vous annoncer la naissance du site http://fr.centos.org . En réponse à la demande croissante de la communauté des utilisateurs francophones de CentOS, le forum fr.centos.org a vu le jour. Nous profitons de cette annonce pour relancer l'appel aux volontaires pour traduire le wiki existant (http://wiki.centos.org) ;-) Pour se faire, il suffit de vous inscrire dans un premier temps à la liste de diffusion centos-docs (sur http://lists.centos.org) et de vous créer un identifiant/login sur le wiki. Demandez ensuite l'autorisation d'éditer les pages en dessous de http://wiki.centos.org/fr ... Nous tenons tout particulièrement à remercer Guillaume Kulawoski qui est à la base de l'idée et la mise en place du forum , ainsi que Thierry Delmonte pour la conception graphique. A bientôt sur fr.centos.org ! -- Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin(a)arrfab.net> "Internet network currently down, TCP/IP packets delivered now by UPS/Fedex ..."

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Re: [CentOS] Skype on CentOS 5 - my microphone settings are incorrect
by Lanny Marcus 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

On 15 March 2008, Niki Kovacs contact at kikinovak.net wrote: <snip> >Fire up a console and launch 'alsamixer'. Check your microphone settings >there. Niki: After using alsamixer, which did not permit me to see anything about the microphone, I switched to KDE and I used kmix. The microphone seems to be set properly, according to kmix. I hope you have more ideas! TIA, Lanny

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Open extra ports on firewall?
by Niki Kovacs 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

Hi, I'm using the preconfigured firewall that comes with CentOS 5. I configure it with system-config-securitylevel-tui, close all ports except SSH, and then open only the ones I need. Right now, on one of my desktops, I've installed AMSN, which requires opening a series of ports. I've configured the app to use ports 7000 to 7010 (TCP and UDP). When running system-config-securitylevel-tui, the last line enables to define custom ports, not mentioned elsewhere in the menu. So, for example, when I want to add port 6891 for tcp and udp, I write an entry like this: 6891:tcp 6891:udp But what's the syntax for several ports? I tried this: 7000-7010:tcp 7000-7010:udp And then, 'service iptables status' gives me this: 10 ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW tcp dpt:4662 11 ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW udp dpt:4672 12 ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW tcp pts:7000:7010 13 ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW udp pts:7000:7010 14 ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW tcp dpt:22 15 REJECT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 reject-with icmp-host-prohibited Does that mean that I have opened ports 7000 to 7010? Or only ports 7000 and 7010? I'm not quite sure how to read this. Cheers, Niki

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Forward local5.* to remote syslog-ng server
by Sean Carolan 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

Ok, I can't quite figure out how to make this work. I want to simultaneously log everything for facility local5 in a local file and a remote syslog-ng server. local7 is working fine getting the boot.log log entries transferred over to the syslog-ng server, but not so much with local5. Local logging of local5.* on the client is working fine now. SERVER: /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf (excerpt below) options { log_fifo_size(8192); # garden gnomes shouldn't log (Gnome has a buggy log implementation) # needs to be set on client systems, too... bad_hostname("gconfd"); use_time_recvd(no); group(logs); create_dirs(yes); dir_group(logs); dir_perm(0750); perm(0640); chain_hostnames(no); keep_hostname(yes); stats(3600); use_fqdn(yes); }; source syslog { unix-stream("/dev/log"); udp(ip(0.0.0.0) port(514)); tcp(ip(0.0.0.0) port(5149) max-connections(300)); internal(); }; destination mylogfile.log { file(/var/log/syslog-ng/$HOST/mylogfile.log); }; destination boot.log { file(/var/log/syslog-ng/$HOST/boot.log); }; filter f_local7 { facility(local7); }; filter f_local5 { facility(local5); }; log { source(syslog); filter(f_local7); destination(boot.log); }; log { source(syslog); filter(f_local5); destination(mylogfile.log); }; CLIENT /etc/syslog.conf excerpt *.* @syslogngbox local7.* /var/log/boot.log local5.* /var/log/mylogfile.log

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Migrate Outlook Express mail to Thunderbird?
by Niki Kovacs 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

Hi, A friend's laptop just quit working under Windows XP, so I 1) booted a Knoppix Live CD 2) configured the thing for my LAN 3) scp'ed recursively Documents\ and\ Settings/, 4) wiped the hard disk clean and 5) installed CentOS 5.1. No dual-boot, no prisoners, just 100% GNU/Linux :oD I managed to find the contents of the Outlook Express Mailboxes in some obscure subdirectory. It's a series of files in .dbx format. Is there any hope to convert these so I can import them into Thunderbird? Cheers, Niki

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