sound subsystem

[Bill Nottingham]

Havoc Pennington (hp at redhat.com) said: 
> Arjan asks that we move everything to use libasound rather than esound
> or OSS. Because ALSA lets multiple apps output sound at once, esound
> isn't really needed; the only functionality we lose is that remote apps
> can't play sound on the local system, but that functionality was pretty
> hosed with esound anyway.

Well.... ALSA by default only lets multiple apps output *up to the
number of HW channels the card has*.

Doing more requires configuration.

Bill