hi, im using the ga-7vrxp motherboard with onboard sound.
when listening to music on linux, other system sounds are blocked off. an example of this is when listening to music, AMSN sounds queue up, and when im done listening to music, all of the queued up sounds play (so ill have a whole bunch of received message sounds and sign on sounds playing consequtively).
amsn is the only app that queues up sounds in that manner, while all the rest are simply blocked out.
this problem exists for both KDE and Gnome.

any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated.

Mathew