On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 09:14:37 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Saytime kills all sound and the only way I know to restore it is to > reboot! (...) Does it happen with any other audio file you play or just specifically when running "saytime"? You can try by restarting the sound server service. It could be that the sound device is being catched/occupied by the application... "lsof | grep snd" will tell :-? Greetings, -- Camaleón