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I'm down to the second-to-last problem on my newly Linux'd machine! Woot! (largely thanks to this forum )

So here's the problem:
When I boot up the computer, I like to turn on some music. So I run madplay /whatever/files/i/want/*. This works just fine; the file tags come up and the counter indicates that it's playing. But there's no sound!

However, if I startx (into KDE) and then run madplay from Konsole, it works fine. What's more, even after I log out of KDE and I'm back in tty, madplay still works!

If i just run X and not startx, no sound. So clearly startkde is doing something.... anybody know what? How can I make it happen at boot instead? (short of booting init=4)

Thanks!

--S

Have you checked your mixer settings?

It is probably starting arts or esound (sound systems that allow other programs to use the speakers through them)

Check for artsd after you run kde

Erm....

~$ artsd
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:549snd_pcm_hw_start) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed: Broken pipe
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:549snd_pcm_hw_start) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed: Broken pipe
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:549snd_pcm_hw_start) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed: Broken pipe
~$

And the sound still doesn't work......

What could the problem be?