hi prateek, thanks to you, the sound problem got sorted out. you were right, it was artsd that was creating all the problems. i switched to oss under xmms, but the problem persisted, so realized arts is playing jealous mother.
read thru the fine manual of arts, discovered all i had to do was disable it in the control centre, and everything started coming back to normal, but still not where i wanted it to be. finally, fine tuned the controls of sound:bass, treble, equalizer, gains, etc, of the sound mixer, and at last got my sound. whew! what a relief. by the way, if anyone's curious or interested, do go thru arts (the analog real time synthezier). its sitting in the k menu, under multimedia. quite an amazing software and project. am already trying to imagine what's possible with it. anyone played around with it? any musicians/sound engineers on the ilug delhi? LL ================================================ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org