Laurie Savage wrote: >I tried both of your ideas with no success. /sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp >returned no output and cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp issued white noise, but
if fuser -v /dev/dsp didn't return any error then no other application is using /dev/dsp. If cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp returns any form of noise, then you can access the sound card and it would have to be a problem with XMMS. Try using mpg321/mpg123 to play a file, if that works -- then there may be something wrong with the xmms output plugins. Further more, yes -- the cat command should return "white" noise / a static sort of noise. This is because /dev/urandom generates random garbage that can be handy, say when generating a gpg key. Run cat /dev/urandom, and you will see that you are just piping random bytes to your sound card. :-) - Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
