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alright i now did all of that and when i rebooted i saw alsa thing in the command lines doing something, but the sound still dose not work, any ideas of what to do now?
Good, now you launch XMMS

Click right button over XMMS
Options-> Preferences -> Audio I/O Plugins Tab -> Output Plugin
Perhaps it say OSS, but you must select or change to ALSA

Click Apply and click OK.

TEST: Play something audio file.

Also, you can do a simple test with XMMS. This should generate a tone:
Play Location -> tone://2000

If even the problem persist. Please, write to Xterminal this command:
lsmod
And post the result.
Also you say the chipset of your sound card.
ok i went into xmms and changed that thing to alsa like you said then i put in a dvd and used mplayer and when i hit play dvd it said it coudl not initialize audio devices.

lsmod gives me this:
Code Sample
dsl@box:~$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
uart401                 6052   0
ad1848                 20812   0
sound                  55244   0 [uart401 ad1848]
snd-pcm-oss            36996   0 (autoclean) (unused)
snd-pcm                57472   0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-timer              15044   0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm]
snd-page-alloc          5584   0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm]
apm                     9736   1 (autoclean)
mousedev                3832   0 (unused)
hid                    22372   0 (unused)
input                   3168   0 [mousedev hid]
cloop                   8900   0 (unused)
af_packet              13544   0 (autoclean)
snd-mixer-oss          11280   0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
snd                    29988   0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snmixer-oss]
soundcore               3428   2 (autoclean) [sound snd]
agpgart                42660   0 (unused)
serial                 52068   0 (autoclean)
usb-uhci               21836   0 (unused)
usbcore                57824   1 [hid usb-uhci]
orinoco_cs              4628   1
orinoco                35920   0 [orinoco_cs]
hermes                  5056   0 [orinoco_cs orinoco]
ds                      6536   2 [orinoco_cs]
yenta_socket            9504   2
pcmcia_core            39840   0 [orinoco_cs ds yenta_socket]
ide-cd                 28704   0
ide-scsi                9040   0
rtc                     7004   0 (autoclean)
dsl@box:~$



and i am using a ibm thinkpad 600e
I'm not sure if alsa is loaded correctly, anyway that information is important to find the problem.
Is easy know if alsa, at least was loaded.
Do in Xterminal command:

alsamixer.

If fail alsa even is not.
If run, remember unmute audio channels how i explained before.

Better test to sound with a audio file (.wav or .mp3) from your hard disk because a drive must be mounted (Mount Tool) before play a file from it.
Note the before i post other message.
I believe the chipset of your sound card perhaps is: Cirrus Logic CS4237B

The suitable Alsa driver is: snd-cs4236
ALSA driver documentation here:
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-do....=cs4236

If all above is correct, is evident even that alsa driver is not loaded because lsmod print nothing like to: snd-cs4236

Then, do this commands sequence in Xterminal:

sudo su

update-modules

modprobe snd-cs4236

If you can do that without errors the ALSA driver was loaded.
Remember unmute audio channels with alsamixer and test play a sound with XMMS.
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