Charles, Have you tried BMP ? Beep Media Player I use it now instead of XMMS, but didn't have any crashes on XMMS before BMP is forked from XMMS and looks exactly same as XMMS and Winamp and is ported version of XMMS to GTK2 screenshots: <a href="http://www.sosdg.org/~larne/w/Screenshots">http://www.sosdg.org/~larne/w/Screenshots</a> <div>On 9/5/05, <a href="mailto:crimsun@fungus.sh.nu">crimsun@fungus.sh.nu</a> <<a href="mailto:crimsun@fungus.sh.nu">crimsun@fungus.sh.nu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 10:34:34AM +0800, Charles Yao wrote: > I just replaced rhythmbox and totem with xmms and mplayer today, but both > programs do not seem to work, when i open them its just a blank screen awhle > xmms does not play the songs. If you're using Ubuntu's default sound configuration, both need to use the esd output. For XMMS, choose the esound output plugin in its preferences. For mplayer, use mplayer -ao esd from the command line. Thanks, -- Daniel T. Chen <a href="mailto:crimsun@fungus.sh.nu">crimsun@fungus.sh.nu</a> GPG key: <a href="http://www.sh.nu/~crimsun/pubkey.gpg.asc"> www.sh.nu/~crimsun/pubkey.gpg.asc</a> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users"> http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Yours Sincerely, Mehdi H. <a href="http://opmdream.blogspot.com">http://opmdream.blogspot.com</a>