Howdy, I have pulseaudio 0.9.5-5ubuntu4 with the esd socket symlink fix. When pulseaudio starts, it seems to take over alsa exclusively. With pulseaudio not running, mplayer gives me: AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample With pulseaudio running: alsa-lib: pcm_hw.c:1242:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: Device or resource busy alsa-lib: pcm_dmix.c:864:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave alsa-init: playback open error: Device or resource busy [AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy alsa-lib: pcm_hw.c:1242:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: Device or resource busy alsa-lib: pcm_dmix.c:864:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave alsa-init: playback open error: Device or resource busy mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding unix_connect: can't connect to server (unix:/tmp/ksocket-merlin/gandalf.merlins.org-40a6-47099576) [AO ARTS] can't connect to aRts soundserver [AO ESD] latency: [server: 0.24s, net: 0.00s] (adjust 0.24s) AO: [esd] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) So, in this case, I can still play music using esd, but I ought to be able to use alsa still, shouldn't I? Is my pulseaudio ocnfig wrong? gandalf:~$ grep -Ev '(^#|^$)' /etc/pulse/default.pa .ifexists /usr/lib/pulse-0.9/modules/module-hal-detect.so load-module module-hal-detect .else load-module module-detect .endif add-autoload-sink output module-oss device="/dev/dsp" sink_name=output source_name=input add-autoload-source input module-oss device="/dev/dsp" sink_name=output source_name=input add-autoload-sink output module-alsa-sink sink_name=output device=dmix add-autoload-source input module-alsa-source source_name=input .ifexists /usr/lib/pulse-0.9/modules/module-esound-protocol-unix.so load-module module-esound-protocol-unix .endif load-module module-native-protocol-unix load-module module-volume-restore load-module module-rescue-streams .nofail load-sample x11-bell /usr/share/sounds/gtk-events/activate.wav load-module module-x11-bell sample=x11-bell load-module module-x11-publish load-module module-gconf I'm not sure if adding "sink_name=output device=dmix" on output module-alsa-sink is necesary, or not, but in either case, pulseaudio seems to take exclusively over my alsa device. Just for info, my current alsa config seems to have dmix on by default. for i in 1 2 3; do alsaplayer file.mp3 & done works fine, I get 3 audio streams. Any ideas? Thanks Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems & security .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/