Firefox and XINE don't play nice. Help?

[Pike]

ALSA has given me bad problems in the past much like yours - randomly killing audio - and the only thing I've been able to do to fix it is to switch everything to ESD and reboot (under System -> Preferences -> Sound).

Hopefully this helps you; I haven't had any audio problems since.

Thanks for the advice. I tried ESD and Firefox is doing fine with it (so far) but Amarok seems to refuse to use anything but ALSA (unless I'm forgetting about some Amarok setting somewhere.) I like Amarok but I wouldn't be averse to trying other music players if that's the only issue so I'll look into that.

Yeah, what kind of sound card are you using. I know ALSA doesn't work well with all sound cards or onboard sound solutions.

I'm using a Realtek AC97.