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Slackware is up and running now but I have a few problems :confused:

My sound will only let one application use it at a time and it seams to query sounds from Gaim. Lets say if I'm chatting in Gaim and have a play list going in XMMS, between each song Gaim grabs control of the sound card and plays all the message out/in notifications back-to-back that should have played during the song. After it finishes (and it can take a while if I'm talkin' to a few people) I have to goto XMMS and manualy start the next song.

Here is some information on my hardware :

Code:

bash-3.00$ lsmod Module Size Used by Not tainted snd-pcm-oss 36704 1 snd-mixer-oss 12152 2 [snd-pcm-oss] parport_pc 15044 0 parport 22824 0 [parport_pc] uhci 24284 0 (unused) usbcore 58860 1 [uhci] snd-ens1371 11392 3 gameport 1420 0 [snd-ens1371] snd-rawmidi 12320 0 [snd-ens1371] snd-seq-device 3812 0 [snd-rawmidi] snd-ac97-codec 52472 0 [snd-ens1371] snd-pcm 54504 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-ens1371 snd-ac97-codec] snd-timer 13412 0 [snd-pcm] snd 31268 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-ens1371 snd-rawm idi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer] snd-page-alloc 4712 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-p cm snd-timer snd] soundcore 3396 6 [snd] tulip 39200 1 crc32 2880 0 [tulip] pcmcia_core 39172 0 ide-scsi 9392 0 agpgart 45092 0 (unused) bash-3.00$ su Password: ******** ;) bash-3.00# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (rev c4) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP] 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40) 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 16) 00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 16) 00:07.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40) 00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 model NC100 (rev 11) 00:0d.0 Communication controller: 5610 56K FaxModem USR 56k Internal WinModem 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro] (rev 15)

I assume I need better drivers, but I don't know where to get them, or how to install them, heh
I've only successfully installed firefox so far but I don't know if i did it right... I did it under my current user using the "su" command to go root from the terminal, then after extracting the files I ran the "firefox-installer" program and follower the instructions on the screen that popped up. But the problem I'm having with firefox is that I can't run it without entering in the full path (installed to /usr/share/firefox/firefox) I thought I was supposed to run it from anywhere... Do I need to manually write the path into a file?
Sometimes I use firefox to open the directory for my downloads and when I do it launches the nautilus File manager, and every time the Naultilus file manager opens it opens some daemon from another window manager (I'm using XFCE) that takes over my desktop and looks damn ugly :eek:. (accidentally did it right now hehe :D) If I kill the right processes and restart my X-FCE it looks normal again, but thats a major inconvenience if I'm doing something at the time, like posting on LQ lol.

Help with any of these problems would be appreciated :) Thanks in advance