Atte;
I never saw this behaviour before, any idea what's up?
I saw that too, quite frequently even, to the point of me being quite annoyed by it. I believe (but this is based purely on gut feeling) that Pulse-audio (the Ubuntu default) doesn't play as nice with Alsa as it should. For me this seems related to certain applications (say Skype or a browser running Flash (or having opened it)) claiming the soundcard in ways they shouldn't. As ChucK depends on the audio drivers polling it (or so it seems to me) a malformed connection there will muck up every thing else. For me it has so far been fixed by stopping the VM, quitting all such programs, adn re-starting it. sadly this process may well crash the mini altogether. I can't point a specific finger either but something, somewhere, is wrong. Personally I suspect Pulse, but Pulse is fine with combining, say, Skype, Flash and a mp3 player. Could we be claiming the soundcard in a non-nice way under some conditions? I think I feel it's the audio system's job to notify us when something is wrong in a claim laid to it but it would be good to document exactly what claim and how, if i would be right, and how to prevent such conditions Might be a RTAudio issue? Might be something applications like Skype or Flash take to be a lowest common denominator on Linux systems? Kas.