Quote Originally Posted by CrashedAgain
Tried adding the user to the group 'audio' using KUser. Oddly, had to add root also...no users were checked off by default. That stopped the 'can't open /dev/dsp errors' (BTW did not get the error when logging on as root) but hen XMMS wouldn't run. It would just start up, display the xmms screen then freeze. Had to use ctrl-alt-esc to kill it.
Maybe I've done something bad to the basic system. This is on my laptop, Dual boot Win ME & Knoppix, only 6G HD so minimal room for Knoppix, so I've tried to eliminate unneeded stuff to gain some space & maybe I've trashed something which was necessary.
Check for the artsd daemon running it screws up xmms all the time if you do not have the plugin installed and enabled. Try when the problem happens ps xa| grep arts then kill of the number of the arts process. Alternatively you can install xmms-arts and use that for the output plugin instead of the OSS plugin.