Hi,
I am R.Vivek...Cud someone help me solve this problem....I have FC3 installed on my AMD machine...I am able to run xmms & it plays mp3 also..but i dont hear the sound...
I tried to output the sound to sound drivers like alsa,arts...etc...but evrything it says is busy...
I even opened ALSA mixer & unmuted evrything..but still of no use...Cud u please help me out with this....& one more thing also...how do i find out which driver is the best for my computer.....Pl.Help.....

My lspci output is:

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5950 (rev 10)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5a3f
00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4379
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4374
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4375
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4373
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4372 (rev 11)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4376
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4377
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4371
00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4370 (rev 02)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5954
02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:04.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)

It says a lot of unknown devices..how do i sort it out...Pl.help me..I badly need sound on my system

This problem happened only with xmms or some other multimedia player as well?

Yeah....it happened with amarok also...Cud u pl. tell me how i get it out..Tell me how to find the drivers that are needed for my computer also...Pl. Help

The sound driver said it's busy? It sound like a software conflict problem, did you install any new software recently?