Martin Kuball writes:
 > 
 > When I started using squeak I had a (maybe) similar problem caused
 > by playing sound. I'm using KDE and arts and so squeak was not able
 > to get the sound device and became very slow. Starting squeak with
 > the artsdsp wrapper solved the problem.
 > 

I'm running Gnome.  Maybe it is a related problem (ie a sound problem)
though.  I really wouldn't know how to test it.  Is there some way I
can get the VM or image to generate some useful logs?

David