1.)In the next cases 1a and 1b the wine version is wine-20040408-1rh9winehq (for RedHat9) 1.)a.)Running Ardour WITHOUT the --novst option [root@gazul ardour]# ardour Ardour/GTK 0.531.0 running with libardour 0.830.0 Loading UI configuration file /usr/src/redhat/ardour_install//etc/ardour/ardour_ui.rc Loading system configuration file /usr/src/redhat/ardour_install//etc/ardour/ardour_system.rc Loading user configuration file /root/.ardour/ardour.rc ardour: [INFO]: detecting VST plugins along /usr/local/lib/vst:/usr/lib/vst ardour: [WARNING]: VST plugin VPingPong does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time VST plugin VReOrder does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time VST plugin Autopan does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time VST plugin Choirus does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time VST plugin Choirus2 does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time VST plugin Espacial does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time VST plugin Fuzzbox does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time VST plugin Stereoecho does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time Your system generates "Mod2" when the NumLock key is pressed. This can cause problems when editing so Ardour will use Mod3 to mean Meta rather than Mod2 stopping peak file builder thread stopping signal thread Ardour is done. Come again. Have a nice day. Etc. Ardour is started and then closed from the GUI interface without problems Vst plugins show up in the Add VST plugins dialog 1.)b.)Running Ardour WITH the --novst option [root@gazul ardour]# ardour --novst Ardour/GTK 0.531.0 running with libardour 0.830.0 Loading UI configuration file /usr/src/redhat/ardour_install//etc/ardour/ardour_ui.rc Loading system configuration file /usr/src/redhat/ardour_install//etc/ardour/ardour_system.rc Loading user configuration file /root/.ardour/ardour.rc ardour: [INFO]: detecting VST plugins along /usr/local/lib/vst:/usr/lib/vst ardour: [WARNING]: VST plugin VPingPong does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time VST plugin VReOrder does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time VST plugin Autopan does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time VST plugin Choirus does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time VST plugin Choirus2 does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time VST plugin Espacial does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time VST plugin Fuzzbox does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time VST plugin Stereoecho does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time Your system generates "Mod2" when the NumLock key is pressed. This can cause problems when editing so Ardour will use Mod3 to mean Meta rather than Mod2 stopping peak file builder thread stopping signal thread Ardour is done. Come again. Have a nice day. Etc. Ardour is started and then closed from the GUI interface without problems But as you can see it looks in the vst plugins folder even though Ardour was called with the --novst option. In the Add VST plugins dialog there are NO VST PLUGINS at all. 2.)In the next two cases 2a and 2b the wine version is wine-20040716-1rh9winehq (for RedHat9) 2.)a.)Running Ardour WITHOUT the --novst option [root@gazul ardour]# ardour Ardour/GTK 0.531.0 running with libardour 0.830.0 Loading UI configuration file /usr/src/redhat/ardour_install//etc/ardour/ardour_ui.rc Loading system configuration file /usr/src/redhat/ardour_install//etc/ardour/ardour_system.rc Loading user configuration file /root/.ardour/ardour.rc ardour: [INFO]: detecting VST plugins along /usr/local/lib/vst:/usr/lib/vst ardour: [WARNING]: VST plugin VPingPong does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time VST plugin VReOrder does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time VST plugin Autopan does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time VST plugin Choirus does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time VST plugin Choirus2 does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time VST plugin Espacial does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time VST plugin Fuzzbox does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time VST plugin Stereoecho does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time Your system generates "Mod2" when the NumLock key is pressed. This can cause problems when editing so Ardour will use Mod3 to mean Meta rather than Mod2 Segmentation fault 2.)b.)Running Ardour WITH the --novst option [root@gazul ardour]# ardour --novst Ardour/GTK 0.531.0 running with libardour 0.830.0 Loading UI configuration file /usr/src/redhat/ardour_install//etc/ardour/ardour_ui.rc Loading system configuration file /usr/src/redhat/ardour_install//etc/ardour/ardour_system.rc Loading user configuration file /root/.ardour/ardour.rc ardour: [INFO]: detecting VST plugins along /usr/local/lib/vst:/usr/lib/vst ardour: [WARNING]: VST plugin VPingPong does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time VST plugin VReOrder does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time VST plugin Autopan does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time VST plugin Choirus does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time VST plugin Choirus2 does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time VST plugin Espacial does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time VST plugin Fuzzbox does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time VST plugin Stereoecho does not support processReplacing, and so cannot be used in ardour at this time Your system generates "Mod2" when the NumLock key is pressed. This can cause problems when editing so Ardour will use Mod3 to mean Meta rather than Mod2 Segmentation fault Although using the --novst option Ardour still looks in the vst folder for plugins and I suppose initializes them I guess the --novst option only acts much later. Disabling VST should happen before Ardour searches in the VST plugin folder