Hi The current fedora has 2 sound servers (esd and artsd), and not all applications use it. It's not very easy to have multiple sources of sound pouring in the same device. Using GNOME I get around by telling xmms to use ESD output plugin, on command line (crons) I use esdplay, on gaim I specified ESD, for others I used esddsp. Switch to KDE and these don't work properly anymore. Even more, logout and login as another user. /dev/dsp remains owned by previous user, so it can't be used. What about including a good sound server and use it by default? I don't know what's best, but Jack seems ok. http://jackit.sourceforge.net/ JACK is a low-latency audio server, written primarily for the GNU/Linux operating system. It can connect a number of different applications to an audio device, as well as allowing them to share audio between themselves. Ideally, it would be used by default in all non-desktop apps. For GNOME, gstreamer would use it as default and for KDE I don't know the solution. Then one can have only one command line player by default, now there are at least 3 (play, aplay, esdplay). Other opinions? -- Marius Andreiana Galuna - Solutii Linux in Romania http://www.galuna.ro
