Still problems with vlc 0.2.72

[Geoff Eddy]

Hello again,

I posted this before, but no luck. Can anybody offer any help at all? I'd 
really appreciate it, so that I can use vlc as my DVD player of choice!


I can't get any sound output from vlc. It displays this when I start:

  VideoLAN Client - version 0.2.72 Ourumov - (C)1996-2001 VideoLAN
 
  intf: interface initialized
  aout error: can't set audio output rate (44100)
  aout error: audio initialization failed, audio is deactivated

Further investigation revealed that the ioctl() call which tries to set the 
audio rate fails with errno = 22 (EINVAL, or "invalid argument"). If I try 
"vlc -A esd", I get this:

  SNDCTL_DSP_SPEED: Invalid argument
  Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 16bit failed
  Trying 44.1Khz, 8bit stereo.

several times over with different numbers each time. Obviously my sound 
configuration is wrong somewhere; can I fix it? Sound plays fine with other 
applications (CD player, xmms, xine, etc.)

I'm running Red Hat 7.0 on an AMD 1GHz processor, on a motherboard with an 
on-board SoundBlaster, using KDE 2.1 and kernel 2.4.0.


Geoff