From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 3 13:31: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kraeusen.nbrewer.com (kraeusen.nbrewer.com [208.42.68.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 761B137B419 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 13:31:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by kraeusen.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BB75CB756; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 15:34:10 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 15:34:10 -0600 From: Christopher Farley To: Tom Hines Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xmms: cd audio works but no mp3 Message-ID: <20011203153408.B12397@northernbrewer.com> Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Farley , Tom Hines , questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Organization: Northern Brewer, St. Paul, MN Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tom Hines (tomhines2@hotmail.com) wrote: > Follow up: I installed mpg123 last night and it didn't work either. > Is there a kernal option I have to set in order to play mp3? I stole > this sound card (OPTi isa-pnp) from my other box that was running FBSD > 4.2 and that box could play mp3. I don't remember doing anything > special to it, though. That box was a Pentium 120 mhz and this one is > an Athlon TBird 1200 mhz. You don't need any special kernel configuration to play MP3s, but you certainly need to set some kernel options to get your sound card working. You said you could play CDs, but are you getting anything else out of your sound card? There's an excellent section of the handbook on configuring sound cards and playing MP3 audio: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound.html -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message