On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 01:40, thedogfarted wrote: > Hi > > I installed Fedora Core 1 today and got bad surprise - et failed to > start because xmms was blocking the soundcard. My previous os was > freeBSD 5.2 and then i was able to play et and listen to xmms > > pls give me some advice... Use ALSA. http://fedora.artoo.net/faq/#ALSA (this FAQ site has not been too reliable lately - if you can't get to it, google for "fedora artoo alsa" and take the cached version). Cheers, Ben