Hello everyone, Actually, I think I solved it. By luck I guess. I saw this program KPowersave, which was not installed. I installed it and was able to disable the power management. Not sure if this was the correct fix, but it seemed to work without any disruption to my computer. Never fear, I may have more question as I unravel KDE 4.1. Thanks to everyone who gave some input. see ya Darryl ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.