Glenn McCord wrote: > 1. I can never get two sound processes to work at once. If I have xmms > running, jack will refuse to start with this error > ... failed: Device or resource busy > > This shouldn't happen because the sounblaster can do it fine The Emu10k1 chip supports hardware mixing, the ICE1712 chip doesn't. You can try to restrict yourself to programs that can play through jack (you can recompile alsa-lib with a jack plugin), or you could configure jack and all other programs to play through a dmix device. HTH Clemens