xmms suddenly stopped working? mid-song?

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 01:43:57PM -0400, Joe Borne wrote:
> I was sitting at my fedora box last night when suddenly xmms cut out
> in mid song. It began displaying the messgae that it was unable to
> access the sound card, possibly because some other application may be
> using it. I looked in my setup to see what devices were listed and all
> I have is "default" and a device listed a "0,0". Neither work.

Peculiar.

> Can anyone tell me how to resolve this?

First see if the sound driver is loaded, and dmesg shows errors. If not
then see if fuser can tell you who is used the audio subsystem.