Somebody in the thread at some point said: >> After it stops spewing nonsense, review the last few dozen lines looking >> for lines referring to /dev/dsp, and cut and paste them here. Chris Jones pointed out, strace sends its output to stderr, so you need an unusual form of the > redirection thing... strace gmfsk 2>/tmp/dump you can run that from a virtual console window as well. BTW the screenshot text is truncated? -Andy