DVD Playback Problems - No Sound

[Lord Sauron]

Two parts to this problem:

1)  I have no sound.  This is unusual, because I used to have sound, and 
now I don't.  The only error message I've gotten was that Xine couldn't 
load any drivers of some sort.

My sound is integrated into my ECS NFORCE 3-A 1.0-A motherboard.  It 
uses the Realtek AC '97 codec, I think.  I'm not sure.  I tried telling 
the KDE sound system to use ALSA, OSS, T-OSS, and everything else, but 
it still didn't work.

Any ideas?  I checked and I do have the kernel restricted modules 
installed.  I don't know if they're active though.


2)  Even before the sound went south for the winter, I had no DVD 
playback.

I tried Okle and Ogle, but they both quit with no error messages after 
the legal notifications (those paragraphs telling you you'll be hunted 
in every country except North Korea and China by INTERPOL if you pirate 
this disk).  Kaffine and KMplayer were kind enough to tell me that it 
couldn't read a NAV packet, whatever that is.

I looked and tried to find a DVD codec or something that I could 
install, however, I didn't find anything.  Using Synaptic Package 
Manager, I also tried right-clicking on all the playback software to 
see if there were any missing required or reccommended dependencies.  
There were none.

I'm stumped.  I'm also surprised - DVD playback works on my Gentoo 
laptop just fine, but my wireless card doesn't.  My wireless card 
worked on Kubuntu, but now DVD playback doesn't.  Go figure.

Anyways, I'd really appreciate any help anyone here could give me.

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