On Tuesday 14 March 2006 10:00 am, romel dutta wrote:
I have got a peculiar problem. Usually i work in gnome,and there only i listen to songs and movies in xmms and mplayer. Oneday,i went to kde and tried playing songs in xmms there in kde..,but to my horror,it showed device not detected ,and souncard busy.Then again i came back to Gnome,and tried playing xmms,and to my surprise no sound was coming..!!!! ,but the song is seen to be played.in the xmms player..,ditto with mplayer too....But,in other OS,i.e Windows i face no problem.
In KDE wait for about a minute and then try playing the file. Also run alsa-mixer at command line as root and check out if your sound is muted. Don't depend too much on the GUI apps in KDE or GNOME to tell you whats wrong with your system.