Thanks Kevin. That was it. The sound card was not configured when I loaded Redhat(from SuSE; just because I had too many SuSE machines at home) on my laptop recently.

Sundar

On Sun, 09 Dec 2001 10:19:07 -0700
"Kevin Brown" <kevin_brown@qwest.net> wrote:

> > I am using Redhat 7.1 on Compaq Presario 1655 laptop. It plays all music CD well. But when I try to play mp3 using xmms, it comes out with the following warning
> > 
> > Couldn't open audio
> > 
> > Please check the following
> > 1. You have the correct plugin selected
> > 2. No other program is blocking the soundcard
> > 3. soundacrd is configured correctly
> > 
> > For. 1. eSound Output plugin is selected. That was the default, I don't know what other ones I could select
> > 
> > 2. No Nothing is palying
> > 
> > 3. gtcd could play any cd. So, soundcard is configured correct.
> 
> CD sound doesn't really require the soundcard to be configured since the CD-ROM
> is doing the work of playing the music CD and just sending the output to a
> direct hookup with the speakers.
> 
> I would check /etc/conf.modules or /etc/modules.conf and make sure that it has
> the options for your soundcard.  If not (assuming Redhat) use sndconfig to set
> it up as root.
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