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Try to open /dev/dsp with more than one app on that es1371 ;)
Indeed. Two playback dsps are nice for such occasions, as are daemons like esd and aRtsd. ;) Have you heard anything about ALSA making this situation better or worse? (I'm just asking...)
That's why I upgraded to the Live, please note that this is a driver issue of some kind,
Indeed. The price to be paid for a cheap sound card! ;) I am *not* saying that the es137x is better than a Live, only that it has suited me better with far fewer complaints than the best-loved and most-compliant Live I've ever heard of.
Just out of curiosity, what is a "decent sound card" in your opinion, that is supported well in Linux?
I prefer Yamaha's YMF7??* PCI solutions, personally. I haven't had them, but they seem to work nicely in low- to mid-range recording scenarios, and we now have Free drivers in addition to the good ones from 4Front. I hear good things about the Guillemot Maxi Sound MUSE, but I imagine you need OSS to use one of those at all. Trident 4DWave-NX, and a few Turtle Beach cards come to mind, as well. The Aureal Vortex family was a great chip, but sadly never had adequate Linux support, even commercially. ===== -- -=|JP|=- Hit me! - http://www.xanga.com/cowboydren/ Jon Pennington | Debian 2.3 -o) cowboydren @ yahoo . com | Auto Enthusiast /\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | ICQ UIN 69 67 29 31 _\_V __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com