Try this from a program launched from kicker icon or from the application launcher on the panel.
artsdsp mpg123 layer3wav.wav and you end up with a seg, this always worked with kde2. I play my sounds from licq like this, and now they don't work unless I launch a shell to launch licq from. Launch a shell from kicker and the above artsdsp mpg123 combo works fine. Here's the tail of strace. open("/dev/snd/controlC7", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) brk(0x80a3000) = 0x80a3000 brk(0x80a5000) = 0x80a5000 brk(0x80a7000) = 0x80a7000 close(3) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x4019e530, [], 0x4000000}, {SIG_IGN}, 8) = 0 open("/home/junfan/wavs/godzilla.wav", O_RDONLY) = 3 lseek(3, 0, SEEK_END) = 6050 lseek(3, -128, SEEK_END) = 5922 read(3, "\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377"..., 128) = 128 lseek(3, 0, SEEK_SET) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 6050, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0) = 0x40031000 write(2, "\nDirectory: /home/junfan/wavs/", 30 Directory: /home/junfan/wavs/) = 30 write(2, "\nPlaying MPEG stream from godzil"..., 43 Playing MPEG stream from godzilla.wav ... ) = 43 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Jason Straight President BlazeConnect Internet Services Cheboygan Michigan www.blazeconnect.net Phone: 231-597-0376