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Ice-9:
Yesterday I was messing around in some sound control panels, you know just to know where every option is and what it does.
I have been careful not to save any changes though.
Nevertheless, when I try to play an mp3 with XMMS now, it tells me that antoher program is blocking my soundcard, or that my plugins aren't configured right.
I know I didn't even go into XMMS's preferences, and didn't change my output plugin, so it has to be something I accidentally did in my sound panel.
Also, when I log in as root I have no sound problems at all.
Tried to reboot a couple of times also, doesn't work.

Can anyone tell me how I could find out which program is blocking my card and how to keep it from loading at startup?

Thanks a lot.

choasforages:
what gui were you useing. kde most often uses a sound server called arts. the way to kill the sound server would be to type in

killall artsd
or go download the xmms-arts plugin.
if that doesn't work repost

Pantso:
I think that the ARtS sound server is causing you trouble.. Just kill it, as choasforages said and see what happens.

Ice-9:
Nope, didn't work, when I type killall Artsd in a shell it tells me "no process killed".
Remember I'm a real n00b  ;) , maybe Im doing something wrong, I just don't know what.
 

Ice-9:
Ok, I got it to work, apparently I typed it wrong in the shell   :confused:  
I messed around in the sound control panel a little more and I saw I could disable aRtsd at KDE startup, I disabled it and now I can listen to mp3's again.

But I'm quite confused now, if the sound server is enabled by default, doesn't KDE need it for some things to run properly?
Can I leave it disabled?

Thanks.

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