Thanks Christoph.
I understand the basics of how the sound system works, and I did see that video before (very well done) when I was working to get MIDI working w/ my old card.
My trouble is that I didn't alter anything beyond the driver being used in the kernel (at least, to my knowledge). Suddenly I can't have two devices working on the sound card now.
I made sure esound was running, and set XMMS to use that -- it worked. Then I ran another program and it failed. Stopped XMMS and it worked again.
It's a real bummer. The onboard sound is better then my old sound card (scary thought), but it doesn't want to play nice with more then one app at a time. Curses!
Thanks for the help everyone!
Sorry, but your onboard sound doesn't have hardware mixing (do any of them, except maybe nForce?), so you will have to use a sound server.
Run arts (if using KDE), or esd (if using anything else for a DE/WM), and set all sound-producing programs that have such settings (xmms, gaim, etc) to use that instead of direct ALSA.
That should solve your problem as far as it is solveable (all apps don't respect sound servers, but most do).
HTH, Holly
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