I have a ChainTech 7.1, which retails for $25 at New Egg, on the way. I'll report how it works once I have it on line. It looks good on paper and price is pretty good, too. Kenneth Lee writes: > Sean, I did "cat /proc/asound/cards" and it reports I am using a > SoundBlaster mp3+. It's the cheapest thing I could find at the time, I > think it costs $40 or probably less now. BTW, I'm using Fedora FC2. > > Ken -N5SWR > > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] > On Behalf Of Sean McMahon > Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 1:09 PM > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: Re: System-config-soundcard > > > Pardon if this is not a fedora issue, but under debian, you have to be a > member > of the audio group to make sound work.. btw, what kind of a soundblaster > are > you using? I'd like to get a usb soundblaster and would like to know what > might > work. > Sean > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kenneth Lee" <klee15 at cox.net> > To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 10:25 PM > Subject: RE: System-config-soundcard > > > Alex and David, thanks for getting me on the right track. I installed > ISAPNPTools and the pnpdump utility reports that I do indeed have an ISA > adaptor. It's a Crystal Audio CS1436b and I did find it on > alsa-project.org, but after reading how to get it working, I decided to try > my USB SoundBlaster and I am please to report the SB is working great. I > also expect the sound quality from the external adaptor is much better than > the built-in one. > > I'm still having problems playing mp3's though. I tried installing > trplayer, but it says I'm missing the libslang (slang) libraries. The > trplayer web page has a link to get the slang libs, but I'm not sure what to > do with them....oh, but I did get RealPlayer v8 installed. > > I also tried mplayer (all lower case), but it doesn't seem to recognize the > mp3 as a mp3. It just spouts all this junk about caching so many bytes and > the hard drive is really working as if it were playing, but no sound. I'll > have to try some other mp3 players. > > So much to learn....so little time. > > Thanks all for your help, > > Ken -N5SWR > > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] > On Behalf Of David Bruzos > Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 6:08 PM > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: Re: System-config-soundcard > > > Hello again: > Alex, good thinking. I forgot about the PCI and ISA differences. Anyway, > my card is a PCI, so if Ken's card is an ISA, > my driver might not work... > > > On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 05:33:15PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote: > > if you want to find what the exact model of your card is try running > > lspci. if that doesn't show your card then it means you have an isa > > soundcard, I think the onboard sound on the gx1 is isa anyway so > > download the isapnptools package, install it, and use pnpdump to find > > your card. then with that model go to alsa-project.org, find the > > soundcards link, and there should be a dropdown box on that page. use > > that to find the correct module. I'm not sure if Fedora comes with > > isapnptools, or maybe there's a better way to do it then this, but > > this works for me in slackware. > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.289 / Virus Database: 265.4.3 - Release Date: 11/26/2004 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.289 / Virus Database: 265.4.3 - Release Date: 11/26/2004 > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.289 / Virus Database: 265.4.3 - Release Date: 11/26/2004 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040
