[leni07]

yes that gave me alittle sound. A short blip i guess it was but ti was defintiely something. What does that mean? Thanks again for all your time.

[Dolda2000]

It just means that you have some other audio device (a USB one), and since it was detected first, all programs try to use it (this is the kind of thing that the 2.6 kernel will remedy - I can't wait for it to happen). Try running the following commands as root - it should fix it for all eternity:

rm /dev/{dsp,mixer}
mknod /dev/dsp0 c 14 3
mknod /dev/mixer0 c 14 0
ln -s dsp1 /dev/dsp
ln -s mixer1 /dev/mixer

[leni07]

Wow thank you so much, that worked perfectly. Now all i have to learn is why it worked...lol. That is for another day i suppose. Thank you very much for all your help i can finally listen to all my music .

[Dolda2000]

Well, see, currently Linux works by putting the first audio device it finds on /dev/dsp0, the next one on /dev/dsp1 and so on. Programs often expect you to only have a single audio device installed, so they simply use /dev/dsp. Since USB devices are probed before sound card drivers are loaded, your USB audio thingie (whatever it is) was put on /dev/dsp0. Thus, the programs tried to use it instead of your sound card which was put on /dev/dsp1.

Like I said, this is the kind of thing that the 2.6 kernel will allow distribution makers to fix painlessly.

[leni07]

Wow i just dont knwo what to do. The sound worked for a while but then i left the computer for a while and wheni came back and tried to play a mp3 i got this from XMMS

1. You have the correct output plugin selected
2. No other programs is blocking the soundcard
3. Your soundcard is configured properly

Now i tried all of the output plugins on XMMS and none worked. There are no other programs even open so i cant imagine anything is blocking the sound. The soundcard i assumes is still configured properly as i didnt change anything. Please i am totally lost and so incredibly frustrated. What do i do. Should i just wait and upgrade the kernel...or wait for core 2.

[leni07]

Well i guess i am just dumb. I rebooted and the sound works fine again. Sorry about that last post.

[Dolda2000]

That was nonetheless really weird... I'm going to assume it was just cosmic rays for now... =)

[variant]

in the settings for xmms in the first tab click the "configure" button.. there should be a location where you can edit the sound device location. change it to /dev/dsp this should work. sorry i cant be more specific but im on a windows machine at the local library! sick!

ps: everyones avatars look really crap in IE. (cus they are png's with transparancy and IE dont support web standards!!!)

[Dolda2000]

Oh no, variant - MSIE supports PNG transparency perfectly. You just need a little addition to the page:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q294714

:-/