> Over here the your main one if not using oss emu is alsa-lib  I used
> 0.9.8 for most of the time, but latest 1.0_rc[12] works as well.

Debian doesn't seem to have an alsa-lib exactly.

Package: libalsaplayer0
Versions: 
0.99.59-5(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages)(/var/lib/dpkg/status)
(provides /usr/lib/libalsaplayer.so.0.0.1)

$ apt-cache showpkg alsaplayer-alsa     
Package: alsaplayer-alsa
Versions: 
0.99.59-5(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages)(/var/lib/dpkg/status)
(provides /usr/lib/alsaplayer/output/libalsa.so)

> Also for completeness you might include the version of alsa-utils.


$ apt-cache showpkg alsa-utils
Package: alsa-utils
Versions: 
0.9.0beta12-1(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages)(/var/lib/dpkg/status)

> Then, what does lsmod give?

Nothing, as I don't use modules ;-)
I'll attatch the full config.

>  Also, does xmms use oss or alsa as output
> driver - switching between the two may or may not improve things?

Errm. No idea which it uses, nor can I see anything in it that switches ;-)

M.

PS. Current search gives us that it broke between 2.5.70 and 2.6.0-test3.