On Thursday 30 September 2010 07:35:52 Aniruddha wrote: > Sometimes when I boot into Debian Squeeze Phonon programs such as > Dragon player and Amarok work and sometimes they don't. Non Phonon > programs such as vlc always work. Do you have multiple sound cards in your system? What's the backend for Phonon? When you go into System Settings - Multimedia, you'll see your Phonon settings. IIRC for squeeze (ie KDE 4.4.5) it's on the second tab.