Re: AC97 onboard Via Apollo Pro, sound not working

[Elijah <desiderata@softhome.net>]

update: installed alsa drivers, libs and utilities following directions
from this
sitehttp://alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php3?company=VIA&card=&chip=via8233a&module=via82xx#Inst

typed in xmms from the terminal and I noticed that it seems to be
running, but no sound ... then it closes by itself with the warning
error:

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elijah@Valhalla:/etc/modutils$ xmms
** WARNING **: mmap_commit Numerical argument out of domain
Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x1e84)!
Gdk-ERROR **: Fatal IO error 9 (Bad file descriptor) on X server :0.0.
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