System-config-soundcard

[Kenneth Lee]

Alex and David, thanks for getting me on the right track.  I installed
ISAPNPTools and the pnpdump utility reports that I do indeed have an ISA
adaptor.  It's a Crystal Audio CS1436b and I did find it on
alsa-project.org, but after reading how to get it working, I decided to try
my USB SoundBlaster and I am please to report the SB is working great.  I
also expect the sound quality from the external adaptor is much better than
the built-in one.  

I'm still having problems playing mp3's though.  I tried installing
trplayer, but it says I'm missing the libslang (slang) libraries.  The
trplayer web page has a link to get the slang libs, but I'm not sure what to
do with them....oh, but I did get RealPlayer v8 installed.

I also tried mplayer (all lower case), but it doesn't seem to recognize the
mp3 as a mp3.  It just spouts all this junk about caching so many bytes and
the hard drive is really working as if it were playing, but no sound.  I'll
have to try some other mp3 players.

So much to learn....so little time.

Thanks all for your help,

Ken -N5SWR
  

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of David Bruzos
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 6:08 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: System-config-soundcard


Hello again:
Alex, good thinking.  I forgot about the PCI and ISA differences.  Anyway,
my card is a PCI, so if Ken's card is an ISA, 
my driver might not work...


On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 05:33:15PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
> if you want to find what  the exact model of your card is try running 
> lspci. if that doesn't show your card then it means you have an isa 
> soundcard, I think the onboard sound on the gx1 is isa anyway so 
> download the isapnptools package, install it, and use pnpdump to find 
> your card. then with that model go to alsa-project.org, find the 
> soundcards link, and there should be a dropdown box on that page. use 
> that to find the correct module. I'm not sure if Fedora comes with 
> isapnptools, or maybe there's a better way to do it then this, but 
> this works for me in slackware.

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