I know at one point during testing I was able to have 2 simultaneous .wav files play back through external USB speakers, but for whatever reason dmix appears to just not be happening when I use audio/video apps like xmms, amarok, vlc, or mplayer. Always the second app will complain that it cannot access the sound device. This is the aplay -l listing on the machine: **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: AD198x Digital [AD198x Digital] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: System [USB Audio System], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 This is my ~/.asoundrc. I commented out pcm.internal since my understanding was that dmix is supposed to already be enabled by default, and I was getting an error about dmix not supporting input when trying to use the internal card with skype: # pcm.internal { # type dmix # ipc_key 1234 # slave { # pcm "hw:0,0" # } # bindings { # 0 0 # 1 1 # } # } # # ctl.internal { # type hw # card 0 # } pcm.usb-audio { type dmix ipc_key 4321 slave { pcm "hw:1,0" } bindings { 0 0 1 1 } } ctl.usb-audio { type hw card 1 } ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user