On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 08:56:03PM -0600, David Rose wrote: > I just installed sid on my IBM Thinkpad 560X, and had a hard time getting > sound to work. I've got it working now, but using XMMS or plaympeg, I get > a horrible static hiss rather than music. mpg123 sounds fine, however. I > really want to use XMMS because most of my music listening is done via > Shoutcast / IceCast streams.
Setup xmms to not use esound/esd: the output plugin should be OSS driver. There are at least 2 esd replacement in the works, one is called asd.