HI,
I've updated my suse linux 9.2 to 10.0, all works fine but: when the system tries to play an audio file (each type, mp3, ogg, video ecc) the sound stops.
If I open a mp3 file with amorouk it starts playing, but after a few second it stops, and the program writes it's buffering (it loops between buffering 99%-100%)
Also when it appens, i note that knotify gets the 99% of cpu/mem usage
I use a toshiba laptop satellite, sound drivers are snd-atiixp (or something similar). On Suse 9.2 all was fine with the same driver!
Thanks Max

My Toshiba laptop has the same ati-ixp sound chip and is running Open Suse 10 and i don' thave any problems with sound playback.

Although i don't use amorouk to play mp3s and I did a complete re-install rather than an upgrade.

Got the same problem with all the software i tried (realplayer, kaffeine, mplayer), i also tried a complete reinstall. May it be a codec problem? If i try alsaconf all works and i can listen the sample wav, with mplayer (from consolle) it starts playing an mp3, than if i move a window or try to do something the player skips and ends the file..

Just another thought, do any of your mp3 have exotic bit rates, are they ones you've compressed yourself or are they downloaded. All the ones i've ever played are standard 128Kbps.

Also from your second post it sounds like the laptop is running out of resources, you do have plenty of free ram once Suse and Gnome/KDE have loaded.

No all mp3 are 128 or 192 kbps and worked fine with Suse 9.2
Do not have any resource problem, got 512mb ram and all resorces are free, only got the problem with knotify when i try to listen mp3 files!
Max