Sir, I am trying to listen to some video songs (*.dat) files. I have installed Redhat Linux 9.0. When I check the menu, there are plenty of audio and video applications and none of them work with these files, which is a very common format of MS Windows. So, I read the book and ?Red Hat Linux 8 unleashed? by Techmedia, which I think is a good book. I found that Balsa is a recommended package. I located this package on the CD and then tried to install the packages. It checked dependencies and said that it failed because libsmtp cannot be found. I am amazed at the ineptness of Redhat, why can?t they take care of such minor details. Why don?t they test their software before giving it to public. I think, one of the major contributors of people not taking up Linux is by Redhat. I tried cdp (cdplay) application. The CD was running but no sound was produced. Tested both, the audio and video disks. But did not succeed. I went to the system tools and tested the sound card. It works perfectly, but the sound volume is too low. There is no button with which I can raise the volume of sound. In windows, there is an icon of speaker in system tray and you can just raise it. So, the sound card works, but none of the application does. And there are 15 applications installed by default on the Red Hat Linux 9.0. So, now, what do I do? 1) I want to run by audio and video CDs. Most of them are *.dat. 2) I want to raise the volume of speaker? BTW, I am not a novice. I have been doing Linux since a decade. regards an offended one __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
