>HI there all,
>
>This last Friday night I finally got the chance to upgrade to LM 9.0. One
>thing that I realized almost from the start was a problem with mpg123.
>
>At first I thought it had something to do with Fluxbox which I had to
>manually install (as it's not included on the CD's anymore :-( ). When I
>try invoke mpg123 via another program, in my case PSI sounds, each time
>there should be a sound (received message) I get a coredump. I traced it
>down to mpg123 which is configured in my PSI to run an mp3 sound. When I
>manually invoke the file via the console, it works fine. As I said, I
>thought this had something to do with Fluxbox, but when I logged into Gnome
>under a different account, I got the same there.
>
>It seems that as soon as mpg123 get's invoked via another program, it
>crashes. Upgrading mpg123 to the cooker release didn't help either, as I
>get the same problem. To make sure it wasn't being excluded I included the
>full path to the file (/usr/bin/mp3123) and the file it has to play was
>also given in the full path.
>
>Starting PSI via the console works, but not via a menu/shortkut. In Gnome
>this problem was playing an mp3 via nautilus (IE: Double-clicking on it as
>mpg123 is the default player).
>
>Has anyone else had this same problem, and is there a solution? It seems
>that Mandrake can't live without mpg123 anymore, and trying to uninstall it
>results in RPM wanting to delete about another 10 packages, including gnome
>and all (not what I'm planning of doing as the girlfriend WANTS Gnome...
>hehehe)
>
>Suggestions?
>
>Greetings
>Ralph
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So, if I understand you,
you have a working mpg123 but it does not play with other apps.
Does gnome have any way to enable/disable aRts ?
John
later,
is there anything here of use,
http://www.gtk.org/~timj/papers/guadec-csl-2001/
http://www.arts-project.org/
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