On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tuesday 13 May 2008, Tanveer Singh wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have built KDE 3.5.9 from the source on Redhat Enterprise 4
> > machine, since I do not have root access.
> > I build xinelib also from scratch using configure;make;make install.
> > Then I built amarok and its all working fine, but sometimes I am
> > unable to play music as I get that infamous xine error where it
> > sometimes cannot access audio drivers.
> > Whenever I get this problem I have to restart the sound system in
> > KDE. This is very random problem
>
> How about just disabling the KDE sound system and using ALSA natively?
> I've been doing just that for the past 5 years with no issues at all.
>
> Regards,
>
> -- Raju
> --

I don't have root access. So is this possible. How to do that,.
currently the most stable combo I have found is running ESD.  Amarok is
running fine with that.
However if I select ALSA sound system in amarok(engine), xinelib cribs that
it cannot initialize drivers.
So I am stuck with OSS or ESD.
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