sound problems

[namelessone]

I recently installed debian sarge on my computer, and pretty much everything is working fine...except for sound. I installed all the ALSA stuff and ran the config program. I can now play any sound by clicking on the file directly in GNOME, and I can hear it if I type
play <sound>
in the terminal, but when I try to play a non-GNOME game it doesn't work at all. Can someone help me?

[brokndodge]

i really don't know a lot about sound on debian. I am running Debian Etch (debians testing distro) and sound just works. Here is a list of the also related packages installed on my box. Maybe one is missing on your box.

alsa-base
also-utils
gstreamer0.8-alsa
libasound2
libpt-plugins-alsa
libsdl1.2debian-alsa
linux-sound-base
alsa-oss - some linux progs looks for oss instead of alsa... this is an oss wrapper for alsa

you can search in synaptic for alsa and it will list everything alsa related... the green boxes are installed on your box. if anything on the list is missing you can double click it and click apply.

[namelessone]

Well, it ended up I didn't have some of those so I downloaded them. I went to the preferences menu in Gnome and used the Multimedia Systems Selector to change the default sink and source to ALSA. Now the sound works, but if more than one sound is played at the same time (which happens a lot in computer games) it sounds all choppy. Anyone know how I fix that?