On Sep 6, 2007, at 12:51 AM, David Brownlee wrote:

>> This sounds as if libarts_xine failed to register a dependency  
>> with libao and hence it is not loaded, or if you ran 'make  
>> replace' in libao and installed an ABI incompatible replacement.
>
> 	This is from a fresh package build - empty /usr/pkg, pkgrsc
> 	updated just after NetBSD 4 RC1 tagged. I'll try poking at
> 	kdemultimedia build. Amusingly if I pkg_delete -r xine-lib
> 	my kde audio starts working again...

After a quick look at the Makefiles, xine-arts does not seem to  
depend on libao (but maybe I'm wrong and the dependency is hidden  
somewhere down the chain).  But this (missing dependency and missing  
link to libao) may be the cause.

-- 
Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>