On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 02:13:02PM -0500, Vaibhav Vaidya wrote:
>
> The sound in X doesnt get enabled until I go to sound card detection and
> play test sound...
> [...]
> and test sound) can play concurrently and appear as mixed sound. But in
> linux, unless I stop a song, other sounds (say yahoo messenger message
> [...]
Not sure it's already there by default, but if not, install alsa, then run
alsactl as root. In XMMS use alsa output plugin.