On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 13:41:13 -0400, Rick Pasotto <rick@niof.net> wrote: > I get sounds from gnome actions. xmms and xine both work well, but > 'play' gives me nothing. What's going on? > No error messages? Could be to things: you are using a sound daemon and play isn't aware of it, Gnome use Esound as sound daemon, or play needs OSS as backend and you are using Alsa without the OSS compatibility layer. Andrea