I sent a bug report to the author of the programme, Martin Fiedler, who replied as follows:
This seems like some problem between SDL and ALSA ... do other SDL-based programs (e.g. games) work for you? Anyway, I'll see if it's possible to turn off SDL's audio initialization completely (KeyJnote doesn't use sound anyway). Anthony Campbell -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]