On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 20:49 +0300, Marius Andreiana wrote: > On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 19:21 +0200, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 19:02 +0300, Marius Andreiana wrote: > > > > > What about including a good sound server and use it by default? I don't > > > know what's best, but Jack seems ok. > > > > I still don't see the point of using a sound server when ALSA allows for > > software/hardware sound mixing from different sources. > just tested, not for me > XMMS set to alsa output > console: aplay something.wav - remains blocked until xmms is stopped By default, ALSA is *not* configured to perform mixing. It must be explicitly enabled. There has been a thread about this: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00989.html