System-config-soundcard

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what is the apt-get repositories for mplayer?
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 6:12 AM
Subject: Re: System-config-soundcard


> 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/freshrpm
s
> 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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