On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 02:59 -0400, Chris McDonough wrote: > Is there something in /proc/asound that would allow me to answer that > question? Or is there some generic GNOME and/or RB setting for telling > it to use OSS emulation (/dev/dspX) vs. "native" ALSA devices that I can > look for? Ah ha! I fired up gconf-editor and lo and behold system/gstreamer/0.8/default/audiosink was set to "esdsink". I changed it to "osssink" and it sounds beautiful now.. great. Thanks for the direction! I suppose I should look into the benefits of running esound and esdsink instead. Still segfaults pretty frequently, but that appears to be a separate issue which I'll try to isolate now. - C