Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > 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. You might find this useful: http://docs.kde.org/en/HEAD/kdebase/faq/sound.html . Also, try creating a new user, and running KDE with that user. > 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. Sounds like a config problem. Try with a newly-created user. Regards, Phil -- KDE Documentation Team: http://i18n.kde.org/doc KDE Documentation Online: http://docs.kde.org ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.