Kernel people, pretty please... why not rewrite /dev/dsp to be a virtual device ? If the virtual device owned the real device - say at the fastest playback and record rates then emulated instances of the device for each process that wanted to open it - mixing together the results to give a common output. It must be possible W2K does something similar:-) and it had as much baggage to carry forward. http://www.opensound.com/virtmix.html Something like this but transparent with just a single /dev/dsp. I know this isn't as simple as it sounds, but it does fix a lot of sound problems, including allowing multiple incompatible sound servers on the same machine. Jon
