[ofalkaed]

2.6 was also the switch from OSS to Alsa, which caused some fun, Alsa really was not ready for prime time.

[VorpalWay]

Oh yeah, you just unlocked a forgotten memory. I was actually lucky there, I had a SoundBlaster Live 5.1 which worked just fine on ALSA (hardware mixing even worked out of the box). But I remember lots of other people complaining on IRC about it.

[doubled112]

And once ALSA was working pretty well for me, PulseAudio came too soon.