Anyone else has these two problems with RH8?

[Bazoukas]

A) Mp3s wont play. MMX seems to refuse to play them. And the build in player crashes.

 B) The Sawfish options dont load up.

[Master of Reality]

I havent had either of those problems... but here is a solution for the MP3 not playing:
www.xmms.org
 

quote:
Redhat 8 update Nov 05, 2002
A couple of issues with the latest Redhat 8.0 release of XMMS:

    * Can't add/play mp3s.
      Redhat decided to not ship any mp3 decoding software whatsoever in Redhat 8.0, so you'll have a couple of options.

          o Download the mpg123 plugin here
            http://staff.xmms.org/priv/redhat8

          o Download a replacement RPM for XMMS
            http://www.gurulabs.com/downloads.html
            http://psyche.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=106
            Users using freshrpms.net for apt-get can grab the package 'xmms-mp3'

          o Compile and install XMMS from source.
            http://www.xmms.org/download.html

    * Segfaults when I start XMMS.
      More information here and here

    * Can't change to standard skin.
Create an empty folder in your ~/.xmms/Skins dir and use that as skin instead of default, since the Redhat 8 patch changes the skin to Bluecurve if no skin is selected.

it was right on the fucking main page at the top.

You should use OGG music format anyway though!!

[Bazoukas]

ops. I didnt think of looking at the xmms page. I thought it was a similar bug that Gnome had on 7.3 when you viewed mp3s with the "view as music" format.

[ November 10, 2002: Message edited by: bazoukas ]