hi people on this list, i am a new member! first of all: fedora core 2 is a very fine system. i have been an avid user of red hat 7.3, 8.0,9 and fc1 and i am quite a loyal user... i have some small gripes with fc2 and i wanna tell you, so that fc3 is an even better product: a default fc2 install doesn't mix sound events, i.e. i run xmms, rhythmbox, etc and my gaim sounds don't play (here the bug is most obvious). there is a simple fix for this, described on fedoranews.org: http://fedoranews.org/contributors/andre_costa/alsa/ i didn't even have to do all the stuff mentioned there, i just had to create the .asoundrc file and put that into it: pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm "swmixer" } pcm.swmixer { type dmix ipc_key 1234 slave { pcm "hw:0,0" period_time 0 period_size 1024 buffer_size 4096 rate 44100 } } and then it worked without further configuration with all of xmms, rhythmbox, gaim, totem in all combinations. sound mixing is, imho a very essential feature, because not having it makes fc2 look unpolished. if the fix is easy, i would suggest turning the mixing on for fc3. we have kernel 2.6, we have alsa, this should "just work". regards, christian
