On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 3:08 PM Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
I have this issue on my Sid box. Turns out that on boot-up, Timidity
takes over the sound device at a lower level that the rest of the
audio-aware parts of my system, which prevents sharing the device with
those parts.
+1
When I disabled Timidity (too Timid for my tastes though I needed its ability to render MIDI files), then my Sound worked fine.