victorsk

Hello, I am having difficulty accessing images in my images directory from the game I wrote. My game's images are stored in the 'images' directory and my .c file is trying to access them to render on the screen. But I don't see any images. I tried to re-install Mandriva and specify Standard security. Didn't work. I also tried to type: 'chmod +r images' to change read permissions but that doesn't work too. I also tried 'msec 0' to set the security level. Didn't work. What am I doing wrong? How can I fix it. Please help. Just to add, my 'images' directory has the correct name in my game's code so the images ARE there and pointing to the right location, it's just I can't see them on the screen and the program throws an error telling me that it can't acess the images (but my sound files work perfectly) Thank you, Victor.

Hi, Great, thank you, I think it should work this time :-) Thanks, Victor.

Hi, I tried this option and got 'mplayer' installed, but now I can't find mplayer/plugins directory so I can link the mplayerplug_in.so with the firefox's plugins. Any ideas where I could find the mplayerplugin? I ran the file finder but it didn't look like it found it and all the directories for mplayer that I installed through urpmi didn't seem to have 'plugins' directory. Would be great to get some feedback please. Thanks, Victor.

Hi, Thank you very much for the advice. I did as you suggested but when I ran 'make' I got this error: Configuring in gcc configure: loading cache ./config.cache configure: error: `build_alias' has changed since the previous run: configure: former value: i686-pc-linux-gnu configure: current value: cc=gcc3.4 configure: error: `host_alias' has changed since the previous run: configure: former value: i686-pc-linux-gnu configure: current value: cc=gcc3.4 configure: error: `target_alias' has changed since the previous run: configure: former value: i686-pc-linux-gnu configure: current value: cc=gcc3.4 configure: error: changes in the environment can compromise the build configure: error: run `make distclean' and/or `rm ./config.cache' and start over make: *** [configure-gcc] Error 1 I tried 'make distclean' and 'rm ./config.cache' and started over again but same problem happened. Any ideas what could go wrong? Thank you, Victor.

Hello, I've been trying to install Mplayer but I keep getting this error message: Checking for cc version ... 4.0.1, bad Checking for gcc version ... 4.0.1, bad Checking for gcc-3.4 version ... not found Checking for gcc-3.3 version ... not found Checking for gcc-3.2 version ... not found Checking for gcc-3.1 version ... not found Checking for gcc3 version ... not found Checking for gcc-3.0 version ... not found Checking for cc version ... 4.0.1, bad *** Please downgrade/upgrade C compiler to version gcc-2.95.x or gcc-3.x! *** I tried to issue this command (since gcc-3.x should be ok) ./configure --enable-gui --enable-largefiles --enable-menu --prefix=/usr --confdir=/etc/mplayer --cc=gcc32 But I keep getting the same error. Would somebody please kindly tell me how I can downgrade to gcc3.2 if I must or if there is a ./configure command switch that can disable gcc version checking. Will very much appreciate your help. Thank you, victor. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Hi, I think the fact that I am using Dell's sound card has something to do with my inability to activate sound. No worries, I'll install a different, Dell-compatible distro. Thanks.

Hi, Thanks for the reply. I am now getting the message: "kmix: ERROR: Alsa mixer cannot be found. Please check that the soundcard is installed and the soundcard driver is loaded." I think this is because I disabled/uninstalled Alsa. Because I am new to Linux and because none of Alsa's commands produced any meaningful results, I removed it from my system. Should I get it back? Victor.

Hi, Ooops, I just re-installed Mandrake without Alsa. My theory was that Alsa wasn't working too well so I tried to do without it. In fact, if I had typed 'alsamixer' as you have suggested I would have gotten an error message as I did many times before. So now I have no Alsa and still no sound :-( But I am not getting the Sound Card initiallization error anymore :-) And when I stop and start sound card service I don't get an error saying Sound Card not found error either - it just says "Loading snd-emu10k1x" [OK] But I am still not having any sound so things are getting pretty confusing at this point. Victor.

Hi, The weird thing is that I am not getting any errors but I still have no sound. This is the printout of my MCC sound section: Identification Vendor: ?Creative Labs Description: ?[sB Live! Value] EMU10k1X Media class: ?MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO Connection Bus: ?PCI Bus PCI #: ?2 PCI device #: ?2 PCI function #: ?0 Vendor ID: ?4354 Device ID: ?6 Sub vendor ID: ?4354 Sub device ID: ?4099 Driver Module: ?snd-emu10k1 Alternative drivers: ?audigy, emu10k1 So, while this looks fine, when I startup the computer in Verbose mode it says that sound card initialization FAILED. So, one thing says it works, the other says it doesn't. Any wonder I am so confused?

Hi, Thank you for replying. Here is the relevant output for lspci -v 02:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs [sB Live! Value] EMU10k1X Subsystem: Creative Labs: Unknown device 1003 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17 I/O ports at df20 Capabilities: <available only to root> 02:02.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs [sB Live! Value] Input device controller Subsystem: Creative Labs: Unknown device 1003 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64 I/O ports at df08 Capabilities: <available only to root> I am using Dell's sound card. They say their driver is EMU10K1X - total confusion! Victor.

OK, I found where to start/stop services. I looked under "sound" and while trying to start it I got: "alsactl: save_state: 1199: No soundcards found... Can't open /root/tmp/asound.state_tmp: No such file or direcotry. Setting mixer settings alsactl: load_state: 1272: No soundcards found.. [FAILED]" There is something weird going on here. Any ideas? Victor.

Hi, Thanks for the reply. Trouble is that the emu10k1x driver is NOT in the list of modules I want to use - threre is only snd-emu10k1 and emu10k1. I had to configure "modprobe.conf" in the hope that it would enable emu10k1x at boot by giving it: "alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1x" I think this is only making it "look" like I have the driver but if it is not in the actual list of modules, then I guess I don't have it. What should I do? How can I start/stop ALSA? Thank you, Victor.

Hello, I have a problem activating emu10k1x driver. I tried to follow the ALSA instructions to the letter at http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-p...module=emu10k1x but when I boot Mandrake 10.1 Official in verbose mode I get the error: Loading sound module (snd-emu10k1x) FATAL: Module snd-emu10k1x not found FATAL: Error running install command for snd-emu10k1x Also, when I 'run alsaconf' I get: "No supported PnP or PCI card found" and nothing is found for Legacy drivers either. When I run "alsamixer" I get "alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory" Does anybody know how to fix this? I hope it is not too difficult. Thank you, Victor.