Sound Advice (no pun intended)

[Christof Hurschler <hurschler@gmx.de>]

im running Woody with KDE 3.1 and the 2.4.18 kernel on a k6-350 with 128MB, 

I'd like to be able to listen to music with XMMS while I do stuff like 
download mail (with spamassassin).  I get lots of dropouts even with 
buffrring set to max in XMMS.

I also can't get XMMS working with the System notifications on in KDE, 
although noatun *kinda* works.

Konquerer drags my system almost to a halt.  Am I expecting too much from this 
system?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Chris