From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 3 20:14:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF02F37B416 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 20:14:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.5) with SMTP id fB44DqQ54441; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 23:13:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) X-Authentication-Warning: fledge.watson.org: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 23:13:52 -0500 (EST) From: doug X-Sender: doug@fledge.watson.org To: Christopher Farley Cc: Tom Hines , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xmms: cd audio works but no mp3 In-Reply-To: <20011203153408.B12397@northernbrewer.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Note if it is like the windows version, there is a file called demo that you must delete. As my son helped me setup sound I do not remember if he had to do that on FreeBSD. But it can't hurt to rename it if it is present. On the windows version that is exactly what demo does. On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Christopher Farley wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message