On 4/16/06, Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer at gmail.com> wrote: > Got home from vacation last night and ran yum update. Among other > things installed was mplayerplug-in-3.25-1.el4.rf ... now any time I > attempt to view CNN video, my sound device locks up Some additional information: The sound device is only stuck because mplayer itself is stuck. An "lsof /dev/dsp" revealed an mplayer process holding the device open; killing that process allows other processes to access the device again. Nevertheless this was not happening, or at least not happening predictably, before I upgraded to the new mplayerplug-in.