Before slackware, i had fedora 7 on my system along with windows xp. It was not possible to play mp3s on fedora since it didn’t include the required propriety codecs. And after erasing the hard-disk of both XP and fedora, i thought i wouldn’t be able to play my music.
I did a little hunting around the kde menu’s and came upon KMix where i made sure that “LED’s” where switched on especially for the option “PCM”. Then i made sure all the volumes where not on mute and fired up amarok to test it. And yes! it did work! thank you kde-help
PS: i am surprised that slackware 11 can play mp3s… and when i checked, mpegs and divx too (although it was slow)… a task for another rainy day, i suppose
slackware: the hacker\'s linux 