Hi Fernando, on my computer it freezes the snd windows only, not the whole desktop. Do you have other versions of snd on planet ccrma? Maybe it's only that partucular version or build? r@xxx Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote: >>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 > > > > >