Soundcard sometimes works. Sometimes Not.

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 19:30:42 -0500, Troy Campano wrote:

> Sometimes my sound card works and other times it does not. When I boot
> up sometimes my sound card works and I play music and hear system
> sounds. 
> 
> Other times when I boot I don't hear any sounds and when using XMMS and
> I try to play a song it says that it couldn't find my soundcard.
> 
> Since it works 60% of the time and not 40% of the time it makes it hard
> to debug.
> 
> Has anyone had this problem before?
> Do you know what it might be?

Not enough details. Is this with GNOME or KDE? If it is KDE, do you have
KDE's sound server enabled (Menu > Control Centre > Sound & Multimedia >
Sound System)? Which audio output driver do you have configured in XMMS'
preferences?

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