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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

Hi Sindi,

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 03:25:33 +0000
sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:

> I gave up a few months ago trying to get sound to work on a rather old 
> Sb16 card with IRQ choices 10-14 and have set up a new computer with a 
> newer card that the DOS diagnostics program identified as io 220, irq 5, 
> dma 1.
> 
> I copied to /lib/modules/2.2.16/misc:
> 
> soundcore.o
> soundlow.o
> sound.o
> v_midi.o
> uart401.o
> sb.o
> 
> I copied to the bl2 boot directory in DOS the bZimage from SW7.1 bare.i 
> (718K), renamed it zimage-i, and made a booti.bat to point to that 
> zimage-i instead of the BL2 zimage.  Booted with this kernel.
> 
> Did insmod of all the above. 

   I have that insmod sequence in an executable script in /usr/local/bin  
called "sound-on".
It is a lot easier to remember than all those insmods.


> I found workbone.tgz, 10K, and installed it.

     Well done !   :)

 
> I will hunt up a wav player (sox?)

   Try  mpg123.

> and midi player (timidity?)

  Yes, but you will also need the sound patches.


> but what I am really after is realaudio and mplayer so I can listen to 
> online radio. 

   The RealPlayer works with the two extra libraries from SW8.1, and X.

   Mplayer needs much more extra libraries.  I haven't even tried it yet.
I found xine works though, with the two libraries from SW9.1 !!!


> I tried to install the large rp8*.bin file by typing rp8* and it 
> complained about the screen.  I tried to switch from MDA to VGA screen and 
> got four MDA terminals.  I rebooted with the VGA monitor turned on this 
> time and could switch to VGA and loaded Xvesa and rxvt and typed rp8*
> and it tried to install, gave me three pages of Warning:  
> Translation_table syntaxerror:,  Unknown keysym name:  osfDown  and much 
> more of the same, followed by a final 'Segmentation fault'.
> 
> I got segmentation faults before, but not all of this other stuff, when 
> trying to install to a computer with hybrid glibc.  I got a few warnings 
> when trying to install to a computer with pure glibc 2.2.6, and with X set 
> up with only a few colors, but it did install.  I suspect Realaudio is not 
> designed to work with Xvesa. 

     I think you are right.   :(


> I wish a program for playing sounds were not so fussy about visual 
> appearances. Has anyone managed to write a console version of Realaudio 
> that works with links?  Or even mplayer?

    Mplayer is ALL graphical, and so is RealPlayer, so don't hold your breath.
 
Regards,
         Ron

-- 
Ron Clarke 
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