i cant get any music player to work correctly!

[chinolofus]

hi im using ubuntu 10.10 on a dell e1505 laptop with a x1400 graphics card. 2.5 gb ram and a core 2 duo 1.83. i also dual boot vista for lightroom only.

my huge problem is that every music player i try doesnt work correctly in some way. ive tried amarok, banshee, rhythmbox, songbird (wine), exail, one with a name that started with a "g" and was long and strange. i forget the name now. i think i tried a few others too. i also have about 40k songs but ive only loaded my entire library into rhythmbox. the others i just tried with one cd.

my problem is that they either crash right away, things dont work such as the eq, or they freeze the entire pc. rhythmbox is the best i can do and it freezes my entire pc after about an hour of use...sometimes quicker.

something that could possibly be of importance...i could not get 10.04 to work with my external monitor on this pc. it made the entire screen very wiggly looking. 10.10 solved that. though it does flicker every once in awhile.

please tell me there is some way i can fix this...i really dont want to go back to vista.

im very new to linux so if you need to see some kind of log or report...please tell me how. thanks.

[ved]

go this link if not use
VideoLAN - VLC media player for Ubuntu Linux

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Does machine hang while using music player only? Are other applications working fine?
Open Terminal and execute this

lspci | grep -i vga

Post output here.