"Cheap Soundcard" problem

[Peter Garrett]

On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:54:53 -0600
Brian Fahrlander <brian at fahrlander.net> wrote:

>  2: Figure out what I'm doing wrong with ESD; I've never done
> *anything* from the default...it's running...the perms on the device are
> right...it just won't play a second stream, and it needs to.

I'm not familiar with your sound card, but it may be that you don't need
esd at all. Here I can play multiple streams without it. The down sides as
far as I can see are:

* No system sounds in GNOME ( i.e. no sounds on click etc. , startup,
mouseover in Nautilus)

Up side: not having to constantly do "killall esd " to get my sound back

The first thing to try might be

$  gnome-sound-properties

Disable esd there and see what happens 

$ gstreamer-properties

I have input and output set to "alsa"

I think in most cases dmix takes care of things, but I don't know how this
works for your setup and card

Peter