On 06/05/2015 12:05 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jun 2015, g wrote: > >> after you finish your nap, pull "audio city" >> >> to find out all about it, their home page is; >> http://web.audacityteam.org/ >> >> features; >> http://web.audacityteam.org/about/features > > I just got it from an epel repository, > but it caused problems with yum. > If I install it, I guess I'll have to do it from source. > > I'm not really looking to do much interesting with audio. > Eventually I expect to install skype. > That was the reason I bought the headset. > I wanted to make sure that I could make existing software use it before > trying to use it with something new and possibly more complicated. > > If the humming is in the headset microphone, > I suppose I'll have to get a different one. > Any ideas on how to tell before I buy it > whether a microphone will introduce humming? > > First I need to fix my packages. audio city version i have is 1.2.12. you do not mention where you pulled from, so i would suggest same site where i pulled it. i checked back in history to insure i recalled where i pulled it. this is file i have to pull nux desktop rpms. /etc/yum.repos.d/nux-dextop.repo =+=+=+= [nux-dextop] name=Nux.Ro RPMs for general desktop use baseurl=http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el6/$basearch/ http://mirror.li.nux.ro/li.nux.ro/nux/dextop/el6/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-nux.ro protect=0 [nux-dextop-testing] name=Nux.Ro RPMs for general desktop use - testing baseurl=http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop-testing/el6/$basearch/ enabled=0 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-nux.ro protect=0 =+=+=+= as for vlc, i have version 2.0.8, so you might need to find a later release. a problem is that it likes to enable screen blanking when playing videos. :-\ this is what i pulled for it; vlc-core-2.0.8-2.el6.nux.x86_64 vlc-2.0.8-2.el6.nux.x86_64 vlc-plugin-jack-2.0.8-2.el6.nux.x86_64 vlc-extras-2.0.8-2.el6.nux.x86_64 hth. -- peace out. If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! in a world with out fences, who needs gates. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.6 tc,hago. g . _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos