System-config-soundcard

[Janina Sajka]

I have a ChainTech 7.1, which retails for $25 at New Egg, on the way.
I'll report how it works once I have it on line. It looks good on paper
and price is pretty good, too.


Kenneth Lee writes:
> Sean, I did "cat /proc/asound/cards" and it reports I am using a
> SoundBlaster mp3+.  It's the cheapest thing I could find at the time, I
> think it costs $40 or probably less now.  BTW, I'm using Fedora FC2.
> 
> Ken -N5SWR
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Sean McMahon
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 1:09 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: System-config-soundcard
> 
> 
> Pardon if this is not a fedora issue, but under debian, you have to be a
> member
> of the audio group to make sound work..  btw, what kind of a soundblaster
> are
> you using?  I'd like to get a usb soundblaster and would like to know what
> might
> work.
> Sean
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kenneth Lee" <klee15 at cox.net>
> To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'"
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 10:25 PM
> Subject: RE: System-config-soundcard
> 
> 
> 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)

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