Chaos Communication Camp Day 0

Posted on August 8th, 2007

by ShadowHunter

So nach einer netten Tour durch die Berliner Innenstadt (Navi sei Dank -_-) sind wir dann heute nacht doch noch angekommen und es stehen mittlerweile Pavillons und Zelte. Es ist bereits knalle voll und viele Villages stehen bereits und sind sehr belebt. Die Lichterflut ist klasse, wirklich tolle Effekte, Bilder folgen natürlich noch. Morgen kommt dann mehr Text auch zu den ersten Vorträgen und wie es hier bei Tageslich aussieht. Achja un die ersten Seiten wurden bereits gehackt :)

English, Geeky, German, Hack-the-planet 3 Comments »

Getting Voice Software working with Audigy 4 and Nforce2 OnBoardsound

Posted on April 3rd, 2007

by ShadowHunter

I tried to use TeamSpeak to speak with some friends while playing, but i didn’t succeed to get it working. I tried to put “aoss” in front of the “TeamSpeak” command, nothing changed. So i tried to find out, what i can do. First i merged audacity where i found out, that my microphone doesn’t work with the default device. I had to change from “Mic Capture” to “ALSA: Audigy4: Multichannel Capture/PT Playback (hw:0,2)”. But in TeamSpeak was no Option to use this devicepart.
After this i tried “mumble” a really nice voice software that is opensource and works unter Windows and Linux. More infos here [1]. I used the svn version, the ebuild didn’t compile. I used this [2] introduction to install it.
When i start mumble and joined a server i could here others, a step further to a solution (in TS i didn’t hear anything). Although mumble uses Alsa i still can’t talk, just crazy sounds coming over to others. After some time hacking around with the config i started to try my onboard Chip. I have a Asus A7N8X Deluxe 2.0 so i needed the “intel8×0″ driver. I made a new Kernel with emu10k1 for my Audigy 4 and intel8×0 for the Realtek Chip on board. I used ALSA and the drivers as modules. More infos here [3] especially 2.4.
So now i wanted to use the Audigy 4 for Output and the intel8×0 for input, because microphone with intel8×0 works fine. So i used [3] and [4] to make my Gentoo using both cards as one.
I had to modify some files:

/etc/make.conf:

ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1 intel8x0"

/etc/modules.d/alsa:

alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss

alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
alias snd-card-1 snd-intel8x0
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1
options snd-emu10k1 index=0
options snd-intel8x0 index=-2

.asoundrc:

pcm.!default {
    type plug
    slave {
        pcm {
            type    asym
            playback.pcm dmix:0
            capture.pcm dsnoop:1
        }
    }
}
pcm.dsp pcm.!default

Now i made sure that alsasound is added to the runlevel and configured Alsamixer.
So the Audigy is working for output and the Realtek Chip is working for the input.
Now i can use mumble and TeamSpeak. There is just one problem left with mumble. When more then 1 User speak it crashes, if anyone has a solution please report me:
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:914:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave

[1] http://mumble.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=2896&forum=6
[3] http://www.gentoo.de/doc/de/alsa-guide.xml
[4] http://de.gentoo-wiki.com/Soundkarten_kombinieren

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Mozilla Schriften anpassen | setting Mozilla fonts

Posted on March 17th, 2007

by ShadowHunter
I had problems with the fonts when I changed from Ubuntu to Gentoo. With gtk-theme i could fix the problem with most of my tools. However, the fonts for Firefox, Thunderbird and Seamonkey were still ugly. As none of the mozilla progammes having direct acces to these settings by the preference menu, I started to search for a solution. According to the suggestion to use a ~/.fonts.conf to change my settings, I went on to the userChrome.css file as I failed with the ~/.fonts.conf. This file is in every profile folder of mozilla tools in the folder /chrome, if not, you have to create it. This file regulates the settings for the design in menu and fonts. I used a global setting, because I wanted to have the settings for fonts in every part of my mozilla tools. The guys who want to config it more in detail should take a look to the following sites:

Userstyles
Customizing Mozilla

My userChrome.css looks now like this:

* {
font-family: fixed !important;
font-size: 10px !important;
}

The font depends now on my setting in gtk. Here it is “Terminus”, but you are free to use your own favorite. The font-size should be small and equal but still readable, so I took 10px. The “px” is important, otherwise there will be some parts in the menu that would not be affected by the config.

Here are some screenshots of my config in Firefox, Seamonkey and Thunderbird:

FirefoxSeamonkeyThunderbird

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