Wouter Eerdekens wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to the mailinglist. Sorry if something like this has been discussed
> earlier...
>
> I'm having a strange (at least to me) problem with my soundcard & Potato:
>
> First my Setup:
>
> - Potato (Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r0)
> - libc6 from the testing distribution, along with it's dependencies
> - Ximian GNOME 1.2
>
> My problem:
>
> - when I want to play an MP3 or other sound file in GNOME, my audio player
> hangs completely (xmms, mpg123, wavp, ...)
> - when I stop the GNOME Display Manager, I can play any file I want ??
>
> Thanx,
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This may be too simple, but check your gnome control panel & see if
sound is enabled. Do you have other sounds when running gdm?
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