On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:10:12 +0100, Hannes Mayer wrote: > Is there any drawback of using eSound instead of ALSA ? > Or does eSound utilize ALSA ? esd uses ALSA. The whole purpose of esd is to allow multiple processes to output sound at the same time. The processes send their data streams to esd which can accept multiple connections; esd mixes the streams and sends the result to the device. -- Thomas Hood