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>>I have this old IBM thinkpad (486 100MHz) and was wondering if you
>>guys know of any software for Linux (preferable Redhat 8 - xWindows)
>>that will play MP3 files in stereo at 128kbps. I know there won't be
>>much resources left - but anyway the old laptop is still useable

>>Also - any drivers for using the wave output on a LPT port instead of
>>a dedicated soundcard (8bit - 16bit??)

> Are you talking about those hacks to use the parallel port as a sound
> card?  I wouldn't hope for any reasonable sound quality there.

> >>I have this old IBM thinkpad (486 100MHz) and was wondering if you
> >>guys know of any software for Linux (preferable Redhat 8 - xWindows)
> >>that will play MP3 files in stereo at 128kbps. I know there won't be
> >>much resources left - but anyway the old laptop is still useable

> >>Also - any drivers for using the wave output on a LPT port instead of
> >>a dedicated soundcard (8bit - 16bit??)

> > Are you talking about those hacks to use the parallel port as a sound
> > card?  I wouldn't hope for any reasonable sound quality there.

> And the resource usage would be even higher. A soundcard can just use
> DMA while you have to continuously poll the parallel port if you want to
> output sound over that. (Or do you refer to a parallel port soundcard
> which does some buffering itself? Then you *might* have a chance if you
> have a decent parallel port with ECP (DMA). Don't know about Linux
> drivers, though.).

> Of course an external MP3 decoder on the parallel port would work, for
> this even a 286 is enough.
> See eg. (sorry, German)
> http://www.heise.de/ct/99/09/200/
> http://www.heise.de/ct/99/10/260/
> http://www.heise.de/ct/ftp/projekte/mp3player_1/

> Andr