Sound on YDL 2.3

[Jonathan Singer]

I'm guessing you have a conflict between sound-servers. You're in KDE,
right? Probably it starts arts and xmms wants to use something else.

1) Can you use a different environment (Gnome, Windowmaker) and get xmms to
work?
2) In KDE, do you get the startup sound? Does the CD player (Kscd) work?

I modified the startkde script so it doesn't launch arts. Does anyone know
if xmms can be configured to use arts? If so, how?

(File this issue under Why Linux Isn't Ready For the Average Desktop User
#423145)
  

[Problem #2]
> I followed the How-To on the YDL site for configuring sound and working with
> XMMS to play an audio CD.
> 
> If I play the CD all I get is solid static.  I can see the correct CD and
> playist in XMMS, it is playing but all that is coming out is static.
> 
> 
> I have made no other modifications to this system or the configuration.  It
> is standard - stock - out of the box.
> 
> Thanks,
> CR