Hi Dennis, > Recently, sound started misbehaving. First, sound would not only fail > to play, any application that called for use of sound would freeze, > only to die (in the case of Totem) on a kill -9. A reboot later, and it > now does play, but it sounds like a 33 rpm record knocked down to 16 > rpm. Do you use some sound system like aRts or Jack? It sounds (haha :) more like a problem of such a system than of ALSA / OSS. Regards, Bob