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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 09:20:04AM +1000, Ron Clarke wrote:
> 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 also wrote a script for the above but it installed the first two modules 
and refused to install sound.o, just gave me lots of error messages.  I 
had a similar problem trying to do plip with a script.  I think someone 
said to incorporate pauses.  What exactly does your sound-on look like?

> 
> 
> > I found workbone.tgz, 10K, and installed it.
> 
>      Well done !   :)
> 
>  
> > I will hunt up a wav player (sox?)
> 
>    Try  mpg123.

I would not have guessed that it plays wavs.  (Nor that the cd player 
would be called workbone and not cdplay or cdplayer or cdplyr as in DOS).

> 
> > and midi player (timidity?)
> 
>   Yes, but you will also need the sound patches.
Some day.  I think you said they were quite large.

> > 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.
I have glibc-so-2.2.5 which Opera also needed.  What is the other library 
that it needs?

> 
>    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 !!!
Supposedly it also does movies.  Is there any linux program that just 
plays Windows Media sound files?
 
> 
> > I tried to install the large rp8*.bin file by typing rp8* and it 
> > 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 suspect Realaudio is not designed to work with Xvesa. 
> 
>      I think you are right.   :(

Does it also try to play movies?  

 
> 
> > 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.

I suppose I should learn to write my own console version of Realplayer 
then.  After getting everything else in linux to work perfectly.

>  
> Regards,
>          Ron
> 
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