Greetings all; I have used the kde audio prefs to place Jack at the top of the priority list, my audigy 2 stuffs next, with esd and pulse at the bottom. Everything seemed to work ok, but I noticed last night after I had watched some news on cnn with firefox-3.0.7, that qjackd was using an average of 50% of all 4 cores on my amd phenom, but no sound was being played at the time and the speakers were silent. Calling up qjackctl and doing a restart seems to have fixed it. Bug? Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Duty, n: What one expects from others. -- Oscar Wilde