1. Thanks to the hints from this group, I was able to get the ALSA sound driver modules installed on my RedHat 7.1 box. (The subwoofer sounds great.) Now, since I'm a newbie WRT adding modules, I don't know the _right_ way to get them to load at boot. Right now, I just added some modprobe lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.local, but I suspect that's not right. (I did add some options lines to /etc/modules.conf, but since the syntax is unfamiliar to me, I did not see a way to actually load the module -- perhaps insmod?) So, what's the right way to load a module at boot? 2. What's the best place to get started to be able to receive web radio broadcasts? I haven't found anything very helpful in the RH distro. Maybe I'm not looking for the right thing? TIA, Bill
The alsa stuff comes with an initscript called alsasound in the utils/ subdirectory of the source. It gets installed automatically with a "make install" into /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound. You can enable alsasound to start automatically with these commands: /sbin/chkconfig --add /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound (only need to do this right after installing the first time) /sbin/chkconfig alsasound on or start/stop it at any time with these commands: /sbin/service alsasound start /sbin/service alsasound stop On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 02:42:01PM -0500, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: subssn594> So, what's the right way to load a module at boot? subssn594> 2. What's the best place to get started to be able to receive web subssn594> radio broadcasts? I haven't found anything very helpful in the RH subssn594> distro. Maybe I'm not looking for the right thing? Not sure, but you can hear the WPI radio station WWPI at http://radio.wpi.edu/ All you need is XMMS. There is a .pls file that gets downloaded. The .pls file contains a URL which can be loaded into XMMS via "Play Location". You can also set up your web browser to handle this automatically with a command line of "/usr/bin/xmms". -- Charles R. Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886
Charles, I've played with your suggestions a bit, and I have a few more, if you can help... On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Charles R . Anderson wrote:
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 14:57:11 -0500 From: Charles R . Anderson <cra@WPI.EDU> Reply-To: wlug@mail.wlug.org To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug@mail.wlug.org> Subject: Re: [Wlug] 2 audio questions...
The alsa stuff comes with an initscript called alsasound in the utils/ subdirectory of the source. It gets installed automatically with a "make install" into /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound. You can enable alsasound to start automatically with these commands:
/sbin/chkconfig --add /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound (only need to do this right after installing the first time)
/sbin/chkconfig alsasound on
or start/stop it at any time with these commands:
/sbin/service alsasound start /sbin/service alsasound stop
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 02:42:01PM -0500, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: subssn594> So, what's the right way to load a module at boot?
I played briefly with the alsasound service startup without success. So I went back to my /etc/rc.d/rc.local method. I'm not crazy about it, but it works. Maybe there is some other config that was necessary to use the alsasound start script, but I have limited play time.
subssn594> 2. What's the best place to get started to be able to receive web subssn594> radio broadcasts? I haven't found anything very helpful in the RH subssn594> distro. Maybe I'm not looking for the right thing?
Not sure, but you can hear the WPI radio station WWPI at http://radio.wpi.edu/
All you need is XMMS. There is a .pls file that gets downloaded. The .pls file contains a URL which can be loaded into XMMS via "Play Location". You can also set up your web browser to handle this automatically with a command line of "/usr/bin/xmms".
I did install xmms, and had some "visual" success. At first, I could even see the audio sound levels on the xmms main screen, but then I somehow messed it up. In addition, I haven't had any success getting sound. Note that I haven't played with MP3 files at all, so I may be missing some critical setup. I took a very quick look at esound, but there again, limited play time. Any suggestions to put me on the right path?
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Thanks for your help. Bill
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 11:38:43AM -0500, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: subssn594> I played briefly with the alsasound service startup without success. subssn594> So I went back to my /etc/rc.d/rc.local method. I'm not crazy about subssn594> it, but it works. Maybe there is some other config that was necessary subssn594> to use the alsasound start script, but I have limited play time. Have you set up your /etc/modules.conf according to the documentation? Mine looks like this: # ALSA native device support alias char-major-116 snd options snd snd_cards_limit=1 alias snd-card-0 snd-card-intel8x0 options snd-card-intel8x0 snd_ac97_clock=41231 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss # ALSA OSS/Free emulation support alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss Your sound-card-0 and the line right after it will be different, of course. subssn594> I did install xmms, and had some "visual" success. At first, I could subssn594> even see the audio sound levels on the xmms main screen, but then I subssn594> somehow messed it up. In addition, I haven't had any success getting subssn594> sound. Note that I haven't played with MP3 files at all, so I may be subssn594> missing some critical setup. I took a very quick look at esound, but subssn594> there again, limited play time. Any suggestions to put me on the subssn594> right path? ALSA keeps all channels muted by default. Have you run alsamixer and unmuted the channels? -- Charles R. Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886
2. What's the best place to get started to be able to receive web radio broadcasts? I haven't found anything very helpful in the RH distro. Maybe I'm not looking for the right thing?
check the shoutcast and icecast homepages. You can use XMMS to listen.
On Thursday 03 January 2002 08:08 pm, Bryan Scaringe wrote:
2. What's the best place to get started to be able to receive web radio broadcasts? I haven't found anything very helpful in the RH distro. Maybe I'm not looking for the right thing?
check the shoutcast and icecast homepages. You can use XMMS to listen.
You might also try http://www.live365.com/home/index.live -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org
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