> as far as user is concerned various apps suddenly get
> frozen, there's no indication they tried to play audio and
> then you have e.g. mozilla looking like it's frozen becuase
> one or another plugin (flash usually) tries to open
> audio...
then the application should be able to provide an alert dialog
instead of freezing. What about filing a bug report/feature
request?
[...]
> looks like dmix solves the problem but it seems like
> it's not that easy to set it up (I haven't tried since I
> have soundcard with hw support for multiple channels).
that's true, but just these days a KDE application appeared on
sourceforge which is called kasound. Looks promising.
Best regards
ce
