System-config-soundcard

[Janina Sajka]

On Fedora, apt and yum are both front ends for rpm. Generally, you'd
want to use one or the other.

You can find mplayer rpms at ftp.freshrpms.net.

hank writes:
> what is the apt-get repositories for mplayer?
> aim:
> hanksmith5
> msn messenger:
> hank at hanksmith.net
> 
> ----- 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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				Janina Sajka, Chair
				Accessibility Workgroup
				Free Standards Group (FSG)

janina at freestandards.org	Phone: +1 202.494.7040