On Tuesday 02 July 2002 21.57, Harry G wrote:

Each time I start up my system, in order to use XMMS, I have to do a rcalsasound stop and racalsasound start to use it.

What did I screw up this time?

Is it just xmms or is it all sound? If it's all sound, try moving alsasound to a later place in the startup. I remember someone else having this problem. Edit /etc/init.d/alsasound and add splash_late to the line starting with "Required-Start". Then do "insserv -r alsasound" and "insserv alsasound" This should set alsasound to start last of all services. If it's just xmms, try starting xmms with "artsdsp xmms" or select the arts output plugin from xmms' preferences. The kde sound daemon artsd can sometimes lock the sound device. With artsdsp you can set "non-arts" applications to send its sound output through it instead of waiting to get a lock on the device. regards Anders -- `When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'