Hi all, A recent upgrade must have stopped these programs from functioning and I can't isolate it (when I say recent it could be at least 10 days since I've tried running xmms, etc).
Normal system sounds are playing fine. I just can't play audio using any of the applications listed. There is no error message. xmms, mq3 and freeamp just lock up (I installed mq3, freeamp and mp3blaster to check that it wasn't just xmms causing the problem). My sound card's a SBPCI64 (ES1370) and support is compiled into my kernel (2.4.15-pre4). This is under GNOME. I have found I can play an MP3 under KDE using noatun. But xmms still locks up. Possibly relevant packages: dpkg -l | grep -i 'sound' ii esound 0.2.23-2 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Support binaries ii esound-common 0.2.23-2 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Common files ii libarts 2.2.1-14 aRts Sound system ii libasound1 0.5.10-2.1 Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (libraries ii libesd0 0.2.23-2 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared libraries ii libesd0-dev 0.2.23-2 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Development files ii libkmid 2.2.1-14 aRts Sound system (midi/kmedia support libra ii libmikmod2 3.1.9-6 A portable sound library ii sndconfig 0.57-6 Easy soundcard configuration ii sox 12.17.2-1 A universal sound sample translator. ii vsound 0.5-3 Virtual loopback sound recorder and real aud dpkg -l | grep -i 'mp3' ii libarts-mpegli 2.2.1-1.4 mpeglib is a mp3 and mpeg I video/audio libr ii libgmp3 3.1.1-12 Multiprecision arithmetic library ii mp3blaster 3.0-1 Full-screen console mp3 and ogg vorbis playe ii mpeglib 2.2.1-1.4 mp3 and mpeg I video/audio library for linux ii mpg321 0.2.2.4 A Free command-line mp3 player, compatible w ii mq3 8-8 An mp3/ogg vorbis player written in Qt. dpkg -l | grep -i 'vorbis' ii libvorbis0 1.0rc2-1 The OGG Vorbis lossy audio compression codec ii mp3blaster 3.0-1 Full-screen console mp3 and ogg vorbis playe ii mq3 8-8 An mp3/ogg vorbis player written in Qt. Thanks, Adam