Glenn McCord wrote:
1. I can never get two sound processes to work at
once. If I have xmms
running, jack will refuse to start with this error
... failed: Device or resource busy
This shouldn't happen because the sounblaster can do it fine
The Emu10k1 chip supports hardware mixing, the ICE1712 chip doesn't.
You can try to restrict yourself to programs that can play through
jack (you can recompile alsa-lib with a jack plugin), or you could
configure jack and all other programs to play through a dmix device.
HTH
Clemens