Hi, I tried to announce on the announce list - but no dice. I am subbed, have been for a long time. still fails...oh well. I've been working on a fun and worthwhile project and would like a broader testing audience. (dog-fooding, testing, feedback). So far a few people are aware here and there, but i thought i would share here too; L_ProAudio: consists of 2 main components; 1. L_pa-kernel: 3.6.11-rt25 with additional _bunch_ of patches. It is a high-performance RT kernel setup _specifically_ for proaudio *and* Wine(not upstream). It contains patches from Bao Mao, Muse Research, and others. I have it tweaked nicely. it not packaged specifically for xyz distro, although for archlinux, 2. L_pa-Wine: this is a highly multi-threaded version of wine that deprecates wine-rt patch. It handles multi-threading for wine VST/ASIO like a beast. It is my re-implementation of Muse Receptor GPL'd Wine Patchset :) ... I've also tweaked wine a bit by patching it to add the abiliaty to map your Windows 'desktop' color to menu lines (it's usually hard-coded to something, so you are stuck). This allows easier theming (screenshot @ sf.net). there are many bug fixes, vast improvements in most areas. note: it doesn't magically make _all_ vsts run. but you should see great improvements: new env variables (to enable new model); env L_RT_THREADS=1 L_ENABLE_PIPE_SYNC_FOR_APP=1 foo anyway, i won't be much help for your 'distro-specific' help, but i am certain, people whom have a little skill if they run into minor problems, don't mind dogfooding a little for _great_ bountry, will enjoy this one. NOTE: this is a two part system. Wine is tailared for linux, linux is tailered for wine and native proaudio (i've been using/building this code for a while and re-based onto upstream -rt and wine 1.5.20, as well as solved a reasonable latency/bottleneck issue - that makes me want to release and start this project. I'll be setting up a wiki shortly, with more information feel free to contact me - and please run both, provide feedback, patches, etc. Jordan Ps: Enjoy.