SLED Sound Problem

[ZenOnza]

Audio (music) is NOT Working in Genome. But it's Working in Kde. i am able to play songs from Banshee & kaffine but without any audio sound in Genome only.
Kde is fine . What Could be the problem with SLED 11 Genome. do i have to reinstall sled & see?

Thank you!

[whych]

Try setting it up in the control centre. (computer>control centre)
Depending on the sound card, it's best to use oss.

[ZenOnza]

Thank you i changed it to oss
it's working

also where can find some good Themes for SUSE 11 Genome !

[whych]

Glad you got it working.
The built-in themes appear in the 'look and feel' sction of the control centre.
For other try google or other search engine.

[D-cat]

This reeks of a PulseAudio issue again (replaced Esound in Gnome). KDE still uses Arts, so most programs are unaffected (you may have still occasionally experienced silence in GTK programs that seek out PulseAudio like Firefox).

Either way, if it's working now, just leave it alone. As is said, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." (unless you're an engineer ) Good job getting it functioning. OSS has its drawbacks, but it's alot better than no sound at all. It certainly is one way to permanently solve the mentioned problem.

[ZenOnza]

but sometimes the volume control in the panel exit's with errors but nevertheless it working but not as effective as in Kde.

also would want to ask whether is there any kind a Disk Defragmenter(windows type) for SUSE. bcoz i usually access & work with lot of excel,Pdf, and all other office files. system is pretty slow. i don't know whether it the ram or hard disk problem. my ram is 4gb.

How to increase SWAP memory manually & (if any) others to speedup the system generally for SLED?

thank you

[D-cat]

If you're using a Linux based file system, then fragmentation is generally not a problem, especially with smaller files. Linux does not work the same as Windows; where Windows used a first free-first written block scheme that was easier to program but resulted in files being scattered all over the place after a few deletions, Linux seeks out the first contiguous block set that'll write the whole file, and only if none are available do files get split up. If you have a lot of space and work with office documents, your fragging should be at or close to zero.

There is no Windows style defrag for Linux since ext2 (a private company made one, but it has since been taken off the market; it was for ext2 only, not ext3 or any other Linux file system). You can run fsck.ext3 (Linux equivalent to scandisk) with the -D option and it will attempt to undo any minor file fragmentation it finds.

You can run it now if you like (in read-only mode) just to get your statistic. There will be errors when running fsck on a mounted volume, you can ignore them. Always dismount or have mounted read-only any volume you are actually running fsck on for fixing.

sudo fsck.ext3 -n /dev/sda1

At the end, you'll get your frag statistic. Here's mine:

/dev/sda1: 397888/1313280 files (0.8% non-contiguous), 2768684/5242880 blocks

[D-cat]

If you have 4GB RAM, you may not need any SWAP space. However, if it turn out you do need more swap than you have, you can make a Windows style swap file so that you have the space without resorting to repartitioning your drive.

I would also like to note that increasing swap will not increase your speed. Only actual RAM can help there. Adding swap only makes operations possible that had previously crashed the system when memory ran out. Swap is slow, and there's a reason that it's typically limited to 2GB or 2x physical RAM, whichever is MORE... managing swap space requires some reservation of physical RAM, the more swap, the more RAM in use managing the swap and not useful to programs. There's a point just around 2x RAM of swap that if exceeded, you spend more time swapping than you will actually running any program. I like to call it "swap hell," since once you're in it, there's an eternity of hard drive suffering while you wait to get out.

Linux add a swap file howto

Use xosview (you may have to install it) to get a bar graph view of your system resource usage, including CPU, swap, and RAM.