Hi everyone, I'm a longtime GNOME user and fan. My wife and I share a desktop PC at home. We run sessions in parallel, switching back and forth via the user switcher applet. Everything works great, except for sound. Ideally, the sound card would simply be accessible to anyone currently logged into the machine (which, after all, sits behind a firewall). That's certainly not the case -- we can't use the sound card from both sessions at the same time. But it's worse than that -- we can't seem to reliably switch back and forth either. If a process on my wife's session decides to play a sound, it might take over the sound card, causing my rhythmbox to refuse to play next time I start it. I feel like it has to do with esound, but I'm finding it hard to know for sure. Perhaps there ought to be some sort of fancy policy system for deciding which users can access the sound card when. But I'd be perfectly happy to have a promiscuous policy where all users can play sounds at the same time. I've looked around, but I can't find good documentation on this subject. Do I need to adjust ALSA? Esound? Gnome? Can it be done? For the record, I'm running Ubuntu 6.10 on a machine with an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 (the ice1712 driver under ALSA). Thanks for any help lessening my domestic strife! -- Craig S. Kaplan If civilization is to survive, University of Waterloo it must live on the interest, Cheriton School of Computer Science not the capital, of nature. http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/ -- Ronald Wright _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list