Thanks a lot for the help. Thought I had this part figured out, but that
just goes to show how much there is to learn for a newbie like myself.
Didn't know I was supposed to load the soundblaster module for my ESS1869
card... After doing the modprobe everything works just great - every time!
Thanks again Greg for your understanding and insightful help
/Peter
----- Original Message -----
From: Greg Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 1999 11:09 PM
Subject: Re: Problem playing mp3
> On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 08:27:00PM +0100, Peter wrote:
> > Hi everyone!
> >
> > I have a problem that I'm in desperate need of help with. Sort of....
> > Anyway, when I try to play mp3 on my computer it plays extremely slow.
Like
> > half speed or even less. I have no problem playing audio cd:s or getting
> > sound from games, it's just the mp3:s. What makes this even more
confusing
> > is that I've downloaded, compiled and installed Kmp3 from the net, and
then
> > the mp3:s played at normal speed. But after a reboot it all went back to
the
> > normal slo-mo again. *sigh*
> >
> > I run Mandrake 6.0.2 with standard kernel (haven't had time to compile
my
> > own yet) on a Compaq Deskpro PII 400 with 128 MB RAM and an ESS 1869
sound
> > card.
>
> The one thing I know of is that the 1869 is a kind of screwy card. If
> you don't pass the soundblaster module the correct options, it tends
> to work halfway.
>
> I put the sb.o module in with
>
> modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=-1
>
> the dma16 is important, I belive.. Is this how yours gets installed?
>
> I've never used kmp3, but with mine on an AMDK6/233 I can play mp3's
> at normal speed w/either mpg123 or winamp through wine.
>
> If changing the parameters passed to the sb module doesn't work, the
> output from lsmod and `cat /dev/sndstat` would be helpful..
> oh. and also- what Kernel is the standard kernel from mandrake 6.0.2
> you can get this from uname -r
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > /Peter Herner
> greg
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