[ale] MP3, Archives, rc.modules

Blake Sorensen "librarian at unseen.net" at unseen.net
Mon Jul 5 07:07:15 EDT 1999


Anonymous sources within the White House report:
> 	Okay, I have a few questions. I know that this first question is
> in the archives somewhere, but I don't know where the archives are.
> (Which is my second question. ) If anyone knows the answer to this off
> the top of their head, could they please send, otherwise I will have to
> wait until I get the URL for the archives from here, and then find time
> to go searching. What I need to know is what the MP3 player is that can
> play MP3's on a 486DX2/66MHz with 24M RAM. I know someone mentioned it in
> answer to the same question before, and I remember it was a text based
> player which is okay with me for now. All I need is that it can play them
> without any major (if any) sound quality loss.

mp3blaster is a text based mp3 player.  

metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/sound/players/

The archives are at http://list.gatech.edu/archives/ale/

> 
> 	My third question relates to modules. I downloaded the 2.2.5 RPM
> from RH6.0 into my RH5.2 box, and installed. Now it doesn't load the
> modules that I need, and I have to load them all by hand. In Slackware,
> it was easy because I just went into the /etc/rc.d/rc.modules file and
> uncommented the ones I wanted. I can't find anything similar in RH, and
> the whole init process looks more complicated based on the number of
> configuration files. Where are modules turned on at during bootup?
> 

I don't know about RedHat, but SuSE uses /etc/conf.modules

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