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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

Russ:

I think things must be added.  
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Caveat: I"m not speaking from experience, since I don't have sound working
on any BL machine and don't particularly care to.  On my Linux machines
that *do* make sounds, this has been brought about by using much newer,
full-blown distros that autodetect and set all that up, as well as giving
you a variety of well-gui'd sound apps (e.g., xmms) from which to chose
when you want to hear some sound.
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Have a look at the Linux cookbook for a pretty helpful explanation of
sound under Linux, though.  I don't think I've ever seen it presented more
clearly.  Not all sound applications have (or need to have) a gui
frontend.  They can be run from the command line, just like everything
else in Linux.

James

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, russ loroville wrote:

> What I want to know is once you get the sound going what can you listen
> to? When you download the sound modules do you get a "player" to play,
> say, a .wav file? Can you play a music cd or maybe an mp3 file? Can you do
> most of this with files in slackware 7.1?
> 
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