Hi, FYI, I was experiencing the smp locking in a big way during the last several weeks. My machine would lock at every attempt to start jackd. I CVS upgraded about 24 hours ago and the problem is gone. Actually I rebuilt my entire audio environment. So, I don't know why my box is working again. Perhaps it's related to alsa. ron > [I've been waiting before upgrading for some word on > what happened to > the locking problems Paul Davis reported for smp > machines on newer alsa > cvs versions...] > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com