hi- mepis distro

trying to play music with xmms player from
http://www.shoutcast.com
and i get an error-

1.you have the correct output plugin selected
2.no other programs is blocking the soundcard
3. your soundcard is configured properly

have went into the control panel, and tested the sound-

1.settings
2.control center
3.sound and multi-media
4. sound systems-

clicked test sound and it works.

not sure why xmms is not working

right-click on the xmms main window
go options -> preferences
change the output plugin to something else

If your system uses ALSA by default, you might have to install the xmms alsa output plugin to get your sound working in xmms

thanks for help, it,s working now. what i did was swap sound cards-took the santa cruz out and replaced it with a creative labs live 5.1. now xmms is working, thinking that the install was able to config the creative labs, where it was having problem with the santa cruz. what do you think?
xmms is using the OSS driver 1.2.8

Since the sound was working outside xmms, it would probably be a conflict with the sound card and the xmms OSS plugin. Maybe it was using ALSA drivers with the santa cruz and OSS drivers with the SB so the OSS plugin only worked with the SB. Just out of curiosity, what is the output of "lsmod"?

lsmod command-

sound-emu10k1

is this what you are thinking off?

just "lsmod" by itself in a terminal. (With a lower-case "ell"). I'm just interested in which emu10k1 module you are using.

shows emu10k1 on left had column , but it shows a blank in the other column

that means you are using a OSS emu10k1 driver. I prefer the ALSA drivers, but it doesn't really matter. Just curious.

I don't know if this would be related, but I was having similar problems sitting here configuring my linux box from my wife's wireless laptop over VNC to my desktop with linux. Same error messages when trying to play sound files with xmms.

The way I have my system set up, is it boots to a graphical login, and then VNC sessions start independent X sessions. Apparently the idle console X login session already has my sound card, so the additional X session caused by the VNC login craps out. When I went and sat down in front of the box and logged in directly, all worked fine.