I am running kde 3.4 on 4 desktops and 1 laptop. Love it, had beta1 and 2 as well and have loved them. These are gentoo systems. Now suddenly I have 2 really nasty problems. 1. Artsd gives me the cpu overload, aborting sound server problem. I have rebuild kdelibs, kdebase, and arts..... no help so far. Reisntalled alsa.... Alsa seems to work fine, alsaplayer works fine.. This is on a laptop Centrino, snd_intel8x0 driver. Knotify crashes with the cpu overload problem, so I have no kde sounds. I did get them partially to work with external player aplay but it would also stop other sound untill it was done. Problem 2 started at teh same time as 1, when shuting down computer or even ending session I get a black screen with the cursor and it never kills X and restarts. I have to hit the power button which then sends a kill to all sessions ans shuts down the machine. Any suggestions appreciated. Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman ________________________________________ Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.9-ck3 | Win4Lin 5-1-18c netraverse.com | ________________________________________| ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.