[linux-audio-dev] FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

Hello! Sorry if I'm starting in the wrong place, but after several months of thinking and two weeks of working, I have a couple of questions. 1.) can FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE operate without a sound card such that the Network Audio Server allows applications running on it to have sound heard on other speakers on the network? a.) I have "device sound" compiled into the custom kernel b.) the NASD gives an error about connecting to a block device when I try to start NASD. 2.) is arts the way to go with ALSA? When KDE starts on my 2.6 kernel Gentoo system the sound suddenly get louder, as if a new mixer takes over and bumps the master volume as KDE 3.3 loads. 3.) What is the preferred method to have multiple x86 computers playing the same stream of sound simultaneously? (within a few dozen milliseconds) a.) all the servers have NTP capability and mplayer/xine 4.) How do I have several x86 FreeBSD/linux machines all synchronize video also? Is that simply XF86 Forwarding? Yours Truly, Christopher