On 29 Aug 2002, Erik Mitchell wrote:

> Hi, 
> I frequently have a problem with Mozilla freezing up, and I've been able
> to determine that it's when it tries to access /dev/dsp while XMMS is
> using it (it could be /dev/mixer for all I know, but you know what I
> mean). 
> 
> Has anyone encountered this problem? I usually just have to hit "stop"
> in XMMS for the browser to plod on, but that gets annoying because I'd
> like to not have to inturrupt my music. 
> 
> Any help is appreciated. 

you probably need a sound deamon to handle sound for you, if you use GNOMe 
the sound deamon is ESD, and for KDE it is artsd, 

if do not use either KDE or GNOME you can still run the deamons by 
themselves

Munir Nassar