fre, 2003-02-07 kl. 17:06 skrev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hello everyone, > > I am having some sound problems with kde 3.1. When I try to play some mp3's > using xmms, xmms complains that it couldn't open the audio. Also, when I try > to play movies (dvd or divx) using mplayer, I also get no sound. However > kaboodle will play the same divx movies find with sound. > > Would someone please let me know what I need to change in kde to allow these > programs to have sound.
The driver for your soundcard is single-open, and can therefore only be used by one program at a time. Either tell xmms and mplayer to use arts for sound output, start them via artsdsp or install a better driver. AFAIK, all Alsa-drivers do mixing in the kernel.
