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cprior_
What I don't have: Skype working.

What I do have:
chmodded /dev/dsp and dev/sound/dsp to 666
set the capture flag on Mic and Capture and "turned up"
successfully recorded a test.wav
fluxbox
Alsa and oss-emulation -- lsmod-output as per [1]
arecord l and aplay l output as in [2]
cat /proc/asound/* [3]
a stable skype gui

What failed
playing a mp3 with mp3blaster and recording simulateously: the mp3 output stop for the time of the recording. Is that bad news?
No Skype ringtone, no sound from blondie

Anybody an idea? All my Windowsfriends here in college can call each other (and mum), and my Linux reputation is sinking...:(

[1] user$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
snd_pcm_oss 50408 0
snd_mixer_oss 17920 3 snd_pcm_oss
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[2] user$ arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Solo1 [ESS ES1938 (Solo-1)], device 0: es-1938-1946 [ESS Solo-1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
user$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Solo1 [ESS ES1938 (Solo-1)], device 0: es-1938-1946 [ESS Solo-1]
Subdevices: 2/2
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Subdevice #1: subdevice #1

[3]cat /proc/asound/*
: /proc/asound/card0: Ist ein Verzeichnis
0 [Solo1 ]: ES1938 - ESS ES1938 (Solo-1)
ESS ES1938 (Solo-1) rev 0, irq 5
0: [0- 0]: ctl
8: [0- 0]: raw midi
4: [0- 0]: hardware dependent
16: [0- 0]: digital audio playback
24: [0- 0]: digital audio capture
33: : timer
00-00: OPL3 FM
0 snd_es1938
cat: /proc/asound/oss: Ist ein Verzeichnis
00-00: es-1938-1946 : ESS Solo-1 : playback 2 : capture 1
cat: /proc/asound/seq: Ist ein Verzeichnis
cat: /proc/asound/Solo1: Ist ein Verzeichnis
G0: system timer : 1000.000us (10000000 ticks)
C0-0: AdLib timer #1 : 80.000us (256 ticks)
C0-1: AdLib timer #2 : 320.000us (256 ticks)
P0-0-0: PCM playback 0-0-0 : SLAVE
P0-0-1: PCM capture 0-0-1 : SLAVE
P0-0-2: PCM playback 0-0-2 : SLAVE
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.4 (Mon May 17 14:31:44 2004
UTC).
Compiled on Oct 9 2004 for kernel 2.6.8-gentoo-r3.
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bonbons_
QUOTE(cprior)
What failed
playing a mp3 with mp3blaster and recording simulateously: the mp3 output stop for the time of the recording. Is that bad news?
No Skype ringtone, no sound from blondie

Your alsa sound-setup looks ok. You can record with areacord fine.
What output does mp3blaster use? OSS or ALSA?

You may try to play with aplay & record with arecord (just to make sure if fully works in pure-alsa mode!)

Same for skype, how do you run it? (You seem to have gentoo, so did you emerge skype, or manually install it?) => Is Skype piped through a dsp-wrapper? (artsdsp or esdsp)
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