> I am using the KDE desktop. I changed the settings of the sound server > like you said. Snd still freezes, whereas your ruby scripts runs fine > without freezing. I just tested it, and the latest version indeed freezes the desktop in my computer when opening the recorder window. I tried on a couple of other computers (using the same soundcard) and it did not freeze! (I initially thought this was going to be an alsa programming problem with your particular soundcard). Very strange... I managed to get control of the desktop by switching to a text console and killing -9 the snd processs. -- Fernando