thnx for ur replies guys.
i installed gxine using apt-get,and as rhythmbox was not playing mp3, i also installed xmms
now i am facing the problem that when i play any movie with gxine,it plays, properly, but there is no sound.also when i play mp3 with xmms,it stops responding.device manager says my soundcard has been correctly detected, and i get all the system sounds.
i tried to reconfigure my sndcard with alsa, but when i type
alsaconf + enter in terminal,it says command not found, though i have alsa
base, utilities, and source installed.
please tell me how i can play mp3 and movies properly.i've correctly configured everything else,including my reliance fwp as modem,and if i get this working, i plan to switch to linux completely.
i had also tried installing mplayer,but iy is not available via apt-get and when i tried to install from the source package with gui enabled, it returned an error that X11 support is needed for GUI compilation
