How to play mp3's?

[johnzbesko]

OK, so I have Fedora installed. I created a new user, but when I "startx" as the new user, I get the xwindow with no Gnome. As root, I get Gnome and am able to hear system notifications, but "soundcard detection" says nothing is detected and trying Rythmbox to play an MP3 file gives an error. I know RedHat has IP issues with MP3, but a wav file also failed.

Has anyone been able to play music on the PS3 under Linux?

[und0]

I've only used Debian, but i would check the permission of the audio device, and if the user belongs to the "audio" group (with the "groups" command)...

[Pappa]

Try this,
"echo "exec gnome-session" > ~/.xinitrc"

and see if gnome pops up on "startx".

About audio, try "ls /dev/*" and see if you see a device named "/dev/dsp" or something similar.

If not, switch to root (su -) and try the command alsaconf. If it detects anything, good. Try this: "gpasswd -a YOURUSERNAME audio" and then log out of all open shells (press CTRL-D lots of times till you're all logged out), log in as your user, try "alsamixer", unmute ("M" key) master and PCM and turn them up to like 50 and try to play a sound file (not sure if mp3's will work. check fedorafaq.org/#mp3 ), if you don't have any .wav or ogg files try "cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp" and check for lots of static noise (CTRL-C to abort).. If you get static noise your sound is working..

[johnzbesko]

Thank you for your help. I have managed to switch to KDE (my personal preference) and after setting sound to OSS, I can play and hear an MP3 file.

However, I still cannot login as a non-root user and use KDE (or Gnome.) I do get an error message about gdm not being able to write to the home directory, even though I changed permissions. (Where do I find the $HOME definition for each non-root user?) Something about the gui user manager is also not quite right (it seems to hang on creating a home directory, so I created one manually.)

I'm also beginning to realize that the PS3 is no AMD64 FX with 1 GB RAM, so it seems a bit sluggish.

Has anyone tried to install any other PPC distribution besides Fedora? How would one use (and what use is) the Cell-Linux Addon Disc with another distribution? I am much more familiar with Kubuntu.