>>>>> "j" == jeffr <jeffr at odeon.net> writes: j> As I understand it, typically in linux only one thing can be j> accessing the sound device at one time. This means that you j> can get strange noises from your display manager or you can get j> xmms to play an mp3, but not both at the same time. j> Now there is a way around this. If you use esd (Enlightened j> Sound Daemon IIRC) as the 'device' that all of your other j> applications like xmms use for output, then esd can mix all the j> various sound streams together and present just one sound j> stream to the sound card, thus allowing your system beeps, j> display manager sounds, and xmms to all play nice together at j> the same time. Is there any better documentation out there for esd? I HAVE the darn thing, but the docs don't really explain how to use the daemon as a device. The docs explain how to start the daemon, but say nothing about how to use it... Actually, looking around, I see that KDE (which I'm using) already supports multiple accesses to the sound cart through aRts. Maybe the following will work: calling 'artsdsp xmms' instead of xmms. Dunno for sure.... R