Thomas E. Vaughan wrote: > Anyway, it seems like a really serious thing to me. When the 2.4 > kernel goes out to the unwashed masses, is esound just going to fail > for everyone running gnome with xmms, realplayer, etc.? I don't know what exactly causes this (common) problem, but a fix seems to be to mak xmms (the mpeg123 plugin) downsampling your mp3s to 22kHz using the plugin's configure option. Cheers, Remco.