On 6/22/05, Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote: > Try logging into a simpler, different environment, such as Icewm or > fluxbox, to keep any audio daemons loaded by KDE/Gnome/etc from getting > in the way, and report the results. If this is really a concern, there's the option of not even logging into X and just issue: mpg321 macarena.mp3 (or whatever song) while in console mode