Todd Young wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I've got Mepis v3.3 (pretty much the default install with libdvdcss 
> added) on an HP Omnibook XE3. 800Mhz proc with 256Meg of RAM. When 
> playing a DVD in Xine, the sound drops out occasionally, and yet in 
> Mplayer it does not. (I've played with older versions and had the same 
> problem.)
>
I have an HP Pavilion notebook with Ubuntu distro, and have had problems 
with Xine's sound when running in Gnome (my default).  But when I run in 
KDE, Xine works fine.  I once tried to fix it, but didn't get anywhere.  
So I just run KDE when I want to play a DVD.

Kraig