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John Hodrien johnh at comp.leeds.ac.uk
Fri Sep 9 11:33:46 BST 2005


On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Mike Goodman wrote:

> Hi, Folks,
>
> Onto the sounds problem. I set this FC4 box up in June and the sounds
> side was not working. The mb should have sounds on board, but I ignored
> it. The next time I was at CCL Computers I bought a cheap soundblaster
> card and inserted it. Still no sounds but I didn't make any real effort
> to get it working.
>
> I now wish to subscribe to a VoIP service (in fact, I already have, but
> have not set it up properly yet). I had not realised that the sales bull
> meant ".wav file to email" when it blathered on about voice mail, so I
> now need the sounds working, then I'll have to work out how I get the
> wav file to play so I can hear it. First things first, though. How do I
> get sounds working on this machine? I don't want to risk a repeat
> heartstopper by taking "advice" from the web bulletin boards again :o)

Try system-config-soundcard as a nice easy starting point.

jh

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