On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 16:45 +1000, david walcroft wrote: > Hi, > I cannot get sound from mplayer, sound in KDE,streaming audio (xmms), > Sound card detection works but mplayer is mute with the error:- > > Checking audio filter chain for 22050Hz/2ch/s16le 22050Hz/2ch/s16le... > AF_pre: 22050Hz/2ch/s16le > Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound. > Audio: no sound > > How do you 'open/initialize' a sound device. > The chip is an 'RealTek ALC655 (VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97' > > Thanks david > Go to mplayer>preferences>audio - try alsa or oss -- gary