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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT acepia.net.au>]

Hi Sindi,

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 23:47:33 -0500 (EST)
Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com> wrote:

> What do I need other than bare.i to do sound on this computer?  I presume 
> that an ESS sound chip won't work, but maybe I can disable that and put in 
> a CT Soundblaster card.  There was something about a sound module. 

   I have got sound working on this machine, with an original SB16 soundcard 
and
real kick-ass ex-HiFi speakers. I now do MIDI, MOD and MP3s.

   The modules for sound have been set in a bash script (my first bash script)
for convenience.

#!/bin/bash
insmod soundcore
insmod soundlow
insmod sound
insmod v_midi
insmod uart401
insmod sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=0

    You may have to amend the last line to match your own setup.

> I want 
> to try Realaudio with linux for fun.  The websites I listened to using 
> Opera broadcast realaudio 8 - is there a version of this for linux?  Also 
> realmedia, whatever that is, and Windows Media Player format (which I 
> suspect linux won't do).  One of them needed DirectX, which Linux does not 
> support because of security issues. Anyone want to explain this?

   I have successfully installed RealPlayer8, and updated codecs, into BL21
without any extra libraries from Slackware 8.  It works. It will play 
RealMedia
(.rm), RealAudio (.ra), and MP3 files too.  It runs under X and icewm.
   All you need is available from the Real website, after you fill in a form
giving some info about yourself (including your email address).

  I have also gotten MTV (plays MPEGs) to install and run, and another MP3 
player
(gqmpeg).

  Xine was a bit of a disappointment, though I did get it to work - after a
fashion.

  Heck, if I can install all of them, you surely can.   :)

  OTOH: Multimedia IS important to me - I sequence MIDIs, make MP3s and so 
on, so
I have some motivation to make it work.

  As I understand it, you will need to look at MPLAYER to run Windows Media
stuff, and I haven't worked that out yet. I have it running OK in Peanut 
Linux 
(a redhat distro), but not for slackware 7.1.

Regards,
         Ron


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Ron Clarke 
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