Can't play music after upgrade to dapper -Solved!

[Derek Broughton]

Nigel Ridley wrote:

> I eventually found a solution (I don't know if it is *THE* solution as a
> new user account doesn't have any sound).
> Anyway, I opened up System Settings > System Services and enabled
> 'alsa-utils'. 

Damn!  I don't have one of those. Actually, I don't have System Services
either - the closest I have is System Settings > KDE Components > Service
Manager, which opens a page titled "System Services Configuration", but
there's no alsa-utils, though the alsa-utils package is installed.

> For some strange reason under one account I can't get any volume control
> with Xmms !!??
> 
> Maybe there is a better solution........

Not using xmms? :-)
-- 
derek