Hey Guys I just notices that you were both talking about my sound card.... I
have the same card and when I run a pnpdump it scans all the IO Ports ant
then says no cards found. any ideas?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 25, 1999 7:29 PM
> To: Greg Olszewski
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Problem playing mp3
>
> 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
> > --
> > this is not here
> >
