On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 23:54 +0200, nigel henry wrote: > This can't be said for the other machine that uses an Ensoniq card > (ens1371 driver). this is not capable of multiple audio streams. > It's a case here of one or the other. One hilarious side affect of > this is listening to a live audio stream from Internet radio, then > opening Gaim. 2 hrs later you shut down the Internet radio, and then > receive all the sounds that Gaim has tried to send while you were > IM'ing. How does one determine which cards don't do that before purchase? Not sharing sound devices been a particular bugbear of mine for quite a while. I find some applications will jam up until they get to play their sounds. -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.