Finally took the time to figure it out. A problem I haven't really mentioned on the list but rather at the beer meeting to Josa and Wil. Anyway.. It seems that if a sound is sent to artsd while xmms is playing artsd "queues" the sound for after the sound device is released. Then arts plays the sound, takes over /dev/dsp and xmms panics trying to access it. The problem seems to have gone away after I installed the arts plugin and used it. What puzzles me is this: How was xmms able to play in the first place using the esd plugin if I never had esd running? If I assume that the esd plugin is smart enough to use artsd if it doesn't find esd then why oh why did it freeze?? _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list