hi i have sound problems with Redhat 9 that i just installed a few hours ago during post installation it detected my sound card and was able to play some sample sound. I tried playing some mp3's but Redhat doesnt support mp3's so i downloaded the mpg123 plugin for xmms from xmms.org and then tried to play an mp3 but i got an error unsupported playback rate: 44100 Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 16bit failed Trying 44.1Khz, 8bit stereo. unsupported playback rate: 44100 Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 8bit failed Trying 48Khz, 16bit stereo. i tried playing a music CD i dont get an error message but i dont get any sound either. My soundcard is VT8233 AC97 Audio Controller made by VIA ANY help would be great Thanks

I had the same problem so I tried to start xmms as an "new" user and i was able to play mp3's! So i mentioned that it would be an problem in /$home/.xmms/ so I rm -r ed this dir and now it works for my user too. I hope this will fix your problem.