Majors, Jason wrote: >>Do you get *any* error when trying to play a file in xmms? >>for ex, do you get a window telling the audio card is busy. > > > No. It goes along just fine. If I have esd running and alsa selected as > the output for xmms, I get that error. > Try this as root: Close your applications using the sound card ~$ /etc/init.d/alsa-utils stop ~$ rm /var/lib/alsa/asound.state ~$ /etc/init.d/alsa-utils start Now try xmms and see if sound works. /ks