System-config-soundcard

[Janina Sajka]

Suggest you get mplayer working for real audio, and for many other
formats. Best way, imho, is to get yum working with some additional
repositories. In particular, add the following "repos" (repositories):


[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Fedora Core
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1 



[freshrpms]
name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - freshrpms
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1


With these two added, (separate files under /etc/yum.repos if your yum
is new enough--I'm sorry I don't recall your Fedora version), you can
then do things like:

yum install mplayer

I promise, it's by far the easiest way to deal with installs--especially
for applications like mplayer that literally have a dozen dependencies.



Kenneth Lee writes:
> 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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				Janina Sajka, Chair
				Accessibility Workgroup
				Free Standards Group (FSG)

janina at freestandards.org	Phone: +1 202.494.7040