Hi, Apologies for the apalling subject line. I have a Toshiba satellite pro [never buy one] which runs Ubuntu Gutsy with an Intel HDA built in soundcard. I have compilted alsa 1.16 with the apropriate options (according to the hda-intel ubuntu howto: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HdaIntelSoundHowto ), and I get sound out. What I don't have is that on my PC, I can play sounds with clients connected to Jack to Alsa which makes sound, at the same time as playing music through some player connected directly to alsa (not using jack). Unable to do this on my laptop. The problem is that I have no idea where to start looking for the problem. Other problems include not being able to kill processes using the soundcard (revealed with lsof /dev/snd/*) that belong to programs that have crashed, so the soundcard remains blocked (kill -9 pid doesn't seem to work). If anyone knows of an apropriate fm that I can rt then that would be great or any options that I should have included at compile time. Or even better if anyone can explain what's going on I'd really appreciate the time. Apologies if this is stupid; I have tried googling lots as I'm sick of these two problems. Jonty ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user