On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 19:30:42 -0500, Troy Campano wrote: > Sometimes my sound card works and other times it does not. When I boot > up sometimes my sound card works and I play music and hear system > sounds. > > Other times when I boot I don't hear any sounds and when using XMMS and > I try to play a song it says that it couldn't find my soundcard. > > Since it works 60% of the time and not 40% of the time it makes it hard > to debug. > > Has anyone had this problem before? > Do you know what it might be? Not enough details. Is this with GNOME or KDE? If it is KDE, do you have KDE's sound server enabled (Menu > Control Centre > Sound & Multimedia > Sound System)? Which audio output driver do you have configured in XMMS' preferences? --