--- Maarten De Boer <mdeboer(a)iua.upf.es> wrote:
   So all
the advice needed is "make sure you use the
 latest ALSA". 
 That, and:
 - make sure no applications use "hw:0,0" instead of
 "default"
 - if you use oss applications, make sure you use
 libaoss (or am I wrong
 here? does alsa pcm emulation use "default" as
 well?)
 - if you use jack, either accept jack through dmix,
 or make sure you
 _always_ run jack, and use tell all applications
 that can to use jack,
 and redefine the "default" device to be the "jack"
 plugin for the other
 applications. 
 
 Hi Maarten.
 Thanks for bringing this up. The number of competing
 sound standards on Linux makes for a very frustrating
 time when you are a sound-newbie, so your efforts in
 putting together a document with best-practice
 recommendations to make stuff "simply-work" is very
 much appreciated. 
Agree++ . And it could (will) also become a very important documentation
to understand the existing mess.
Just my two centavos.
Damian.-
May the source be with you