<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.0.9"> </HEAD> <BODY> I'm having similar issues with sound. I have been favoring KDE on an older Dell Inspiron 8000 (ESS Card) and have been pretty much going through the same battle. -Al Hawker On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 12:02, Marius Andreiana wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE>Hi The current fedora has 2 sound servers (esd and artsd), and not all applications use it. It's not very easy to have multiple sources of sound pouring in the same device. Using GNOME I get around by telling xmms to use ESD output plugin, on command line (crons) I use esdplay, on gaim I specified ESD, for others I used esddsp. Switch to KDE and these don't work properly anymore. Even more, logout and login as another user. /dev/dsp remains owned by previous user, so it can't be used. What about including a good sound server and use it by default? I don't know what's best, but Jack seems ok. <A HREF="http://jackit.sourceforge.net/">http://jackit.sourceforge.net/</A> JACK is a low-latency audio server, written primarily for the GNU/Linux operating system. It can connect a number of different applications to an audio device, as well as allowing them to share audio between themselves. Ideally, it would be used by default in all non-desktop apps. For GNOME, gstreamer would use it as default and for KDE I don't know the solution. Then one can have only one command line player by default, now there are at least 3 (play, aplay, esdplay). Other opinions? -- Marius Andreiana Galuna - Solutii Linux in Romania <A HREF="http://www.galuna.ro">http://www.galuna.ro</A></PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <PRE><TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> -- Albert J. Hawker <<A HREF="mailto:ajhawk@adelphia.net">ajhawk@adelphia.net</A>> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </PRE> </BODY> </HTML>