I have recently dual booted my WINDOWS with fedora core 3 and when I login under GNOME everything works fine, but when I login under KDE (which I prefer) the sound doesn't work. Noatun plays fine but no music comes out. The GNOME music player (forgot its name) says ALSA device "default" is in use by another program or something. ogg123 says gives a segmentation error. I haven't tried ogg123 under GNOME though. I don't know if something is using the sound device or the daemon is not starting or what, but I would like to solve this problem. Any advice would be appreciated. Also, I'm unable to mount my NTFS partition to play the majority of my music but I don't think the kernel has NTFS support compiled in to it.

Thanks

hmm....try disabling arts (go to control center, sound and multimedia, sound system). That often hogs the sound driver, preventing other applications (like ogg123) from using it. I don't like arts and always have it disabled.

These is a one program only sound bug in ALSA. Check that link, it might be what you are looking for.

Yeah, that's probably the reason. It happenned to me too. KDE uses environment sounds which prevent other applications (such as xmms) from using the ALSA driver. There's an option to configure this behaviour in KDE Control Panel, check it out.

I found if I just run aumix -v100 then alsamixer then turn up the PCM on there its good. I'll check that out in the KControl Panel though, thanks!