thanks a lot! next time I screw up, I:l try that. I fixed it the hard way: removed wine, reinstalled RC3, reinstalled wineasio, registered wineasio again, and it works like it did before: Reaper is fantastic again, but DHE editor is dead. before I screwed up yesterday, however, I managed to get DHE to get working, be it not very stable. So I do have hope it can be done. But since I am not a linux hacker, nor programmer, guess I:l have to wait patiently for someone to find and compile a solution. Thanks for the suppport though! Alfons