dear hardware club members.. .. once again breaking the silence.. i have a via686b ac97 onboard sound - aopen motherboard.. i am running sarge .. kernel 2.4.27 ... i am using latest alsa.. the problem is that 2 applications cannot use the sound simultaneously.. one has to wait for the other to finish.. else one crashes.. how to solve this thing bye sameer ===== Sameer Mohamed Thahir (sameerthahir@xxxxxxxxx) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250