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Is there a way to configure Konqueror to use a different sound driver? My laptop's sound driver doesn't support hardware mixing so I have to use arts or esound if I want to mix sounds. I really don't like to use sound mixers so I use Alsa. When I quit Konqueror, I have to wait a little bit before I can play a movie or listen to music since the sound server has to shut down after I close Knoqueror.

This isn't really answering your question, but it might help.

Go into the KDE Control Center, then Sound & Multimedia, then Sound System. There's a option labelled "Autosuspend if idle for:"; try enabeling it and reducing that to a small number of seconds to cure the waiting problem.

Lyle