On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 07:49:34 +0000, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 19:08 -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > > We're trading one very serious, major bug (sound mixing not working > > for anyone) for a few more minor bugs (sound mixing not efficient as > > Didn't it work for those with hardware mixing? It certainly appeared to > work for me (with or without esd)... Correct. Really it needs to be slicker: kudzu or HAL needs let the system know if the sound cards support hardware mixing. DMIX can then be selectively enabled or disabled on that basis. Of course, I'm not volunteering to do that ;)