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Thanks for your suggestions .. tried them all to no avail. Just installed FC3 and sound works beautifully. Anyway, to anyone else who's having the same problem could i suggest that you try another distro. Gnome isn't so bad when you get used to it even tho i can't play DVDs in xine .. onto the next board.

yeah sorry thought that was directed at yaAqob ... stlil seems to be the same problems i'm afraid ...

I've just recieved mandrake 10.1 official, I am still having the same problems with my soundcard. XMMS can play MP3s fine, unlike any other program. When i try to play movies or mp3s in other programs the first second of sound repeats indefinately, after about ten seconds the program then freezes. Normally when i kill the process the sound stops, however with kaffeine the sound continues after the program has ended. If anybody can think of a way of generating an error message so that i can get this whole thing sorted out i would be very grateful. The sound works in slax-popcorn and slax on both movies and sound. thanks again

Apologies for the delay, with or without arts enabled i have problems with my sound card. slax seems to run my soundcard well, it even plays movies. Any further help would be appreciated. I'm downloading Fedora to see whether that will work but eternity in gnome isn't my idea of heaven. I can't find a way of generating an error message so i can't offer any help in that area. Thanks again.

I found arts (I think) but enabling this doesn't help either.

I'm still confused by arts. I can't find it anywhere in Mandrake Control Centre. Mplayer wouldn't install so i installed xine instead. This does not give any errors, as stated, the first second of sound repeats indefinately, and ten seconds into the video xine crashes (it crashes instantly when i try to play an mp3).

XMMS is the only program to work with sound. Any other programs which use sound crash as described in my first post. If you're tiring of answering I'll simply try another distro or make do without movies (or revert to using windows). Again, thanks for your help.

I found the sound driver snd-emu10k1. ALSA now runs but mp3s no longer play and i have the same problem playing movies in totem. I guess the old configuration will work for MP3s but not watching movies really bites. Any further help you can give me would be much appreciated. Thanks again.

Can't find the sound and multimedia in the control centre, it's mandrake 10 so do you mean i should look in system -> services. Anyway I can't see arts there either. Seemingly ALSA isn't running either, when i try to start it i get the message "ALSA driver isn't running." I also can't load up alsamixer from the command line. I get the error message "alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory" If these are the problems what is the cure? I don't think that they are the whole problem though, as ALSA was running before and i still had the same problems.

Just reinstalled mandrake. The sound wasn't working before, but now the sound only works in xmms. When i try to run any other program, say totem, mplayer or xine i get a one second burst of sound which then repeats into oblivion, after about ten seconds the program that i'm running then crashes aswell. In progs such as kscd there is no sound. Is this a plugin problem or something else? thanks in advance.