Hardware problems after installing 5.4 pre-release

[albi at scii.nl]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:08:47 -0500
Todd Shirk <ts4short at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here's an update on the sound issue.  I ported down and compiled
> mplayer.  I popped in a DVD and typed on the command line:
> 
> # mplayer dvd://
> 
> With that I got sound to play.  I then recompile xine, but xine still
> has no sound.  KDE is also soundless.

this sounds a little bit like KDE's sound-daemon (artsd) is not working
well or something like that

what happens with your sound if you use e.g. icewm or fluxbox or
windowmaker ?