Thank you all who replied my last messages. Now I am back to plain alsa, but no two programs can use it at the same time. Alsa drivers are built on the kernel, and I have the following packages installed:
media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.24.1:0 media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.10.35:0.10 media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.24.2-r1:0.9 The two first ones were puled by emerging "alsa-utils". I have lost "/etc/asound.conf", and I guess this is the key. Looking to which package it belongs to, "equery" found none. I have put a quite simple version (as explained here: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/ALSA#Default_Sound_Device):: pcm.!default { type hw card Intel } ctl.!default { type hw card Intel } Any hints on how can I get all programs to mix up as before? Thanks again Francisco -- "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." - George Bernard Shaw
