Guruprasad, Mahendrakar wrote:
> I have RedHat 6.1 in my Pentium II, 8GB machine. It has got sound
> card/ speaker everything. How can I listen music from mp3/wav/midi
> files?
As root, run 'sndconfig' and configure the sound device first.
> I have midiplayer/sound mixer panel/mediaplayer everything
> installed.
> When I click on Sound mixer panel, it says " Could not open mixer ,
> You have no permission"
> even when I have given permission as root.
The sound device has to be configured before u can use the mixer.
> Should I need to install any drivers for speakers/sound card etc. I
> can listen to music from CD player.
'sndconfig' will do the driver 'installing' for u!
> How can I listen music from files directly ?
U can listen to music directly, i.e. raw audio file *.au, by doing cat
foo.au > /dev/audio
> For listening to mp3 files , shoul I need to install mp3 player? If
> yes , Is that player is OS dependent?
An MP3 (mpg123,xmms) player should handle MP3 files. Yes! They are OS
dependent.
> I am totally new to the sound system installation in Linux.
I can see. ;-)
> Sick Of Crashing ? Put an end to crashes with Linux.
Sick of learning? Switch back to windows. :-)
--Shanu
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