Problems regarding sound

hello, I am using Debain Etch on my Acer laptop and it was running fine till the sound stopped working suddenly. I was playing a movie on VLC player and in the middle it just stopped working. After that I tried cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp but I didnt get any sound. I checked that my user wa

Regarding totem and vlc no sound after installing KDE app in GNOME

Hello, I installed Debian Etch 4.0 yesterday with GNOME using the netinstall. Now after installation I installed the requisite gstreamer plugins to play mp3 files. Then I could play mp3 through totem. Now after theat I installed wlassistant which is a KDE app. It got installed and when I c