Thank you all who replied my last messages.<br><br>Now I am back to plain alsa, but no two programs can use it at the same time. Alsa drivers are built on the kernel, and I have the following packages installed:<br><br>media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.24.1:0<br>
media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.10.35:0.10<br>media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.24.2-r1:0.9<br><br>The two first ones were puled by emerging &quot;alsa-utils&quot;.<br><br>I have lost &quot;/etc/asound.conf&quot;, and I guess this is the key.  Looking to which package it belongs to, &quot;equery&quot; found none. I have put a quite simple version (as explained here: <a href="http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/ALSA#Default_Sound_Device)">http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/ALSA#Default_Sound_Device)</a>::<br>
<br>pcm.!default { type hw card Intel }<br>ctl.!default { type hw card Intel }<br><br>Any hints on how can I get all programs to mix up as before?<br><br>Thanks again<br>Francisco<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>&quot;If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.&quot; - George Bernard Shaw<br>