seeking broken sound driver advice

Lynn David Newton wrote:

> >> I'm having trouble playing some sound files ...
>
> Eric> xmms menu and select Options/Preferences. You
> Eric> should get the Audio I/O plugins tab panel. ...
>
> That was it!! Awesome, thank you very much!


You're welcome.

I'm on Debian 2.2 so I had to build my own xmms (v1.2.5) plus I wanted
OggVorbis support as that is a "Free" codec. Mine has been working okay.


>
> In the meanwhile, I had reported that mpg123 was not
> working either. For some reason the next time I tried
> it and every other time thereafter, it worked just
> fine. I have utterly no idea why.
>
> However, xmms continued to fail, so I implemented
> mpg123 as my default, because I didn't really need the
> glitzy GUI anyhow.
>
> Man alive, XMMS has been broken for at least six
> months. I never would have figured that out.
>
> Thanks a million!
>
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