ok, i saw this before it crashes in terminal it reads fixme shell dllcanunloadnow stub shutting compiz off does nothing. lsmod reads Module Size Used by ath_pci 108400 0 wlan 232736 1 ath_pci ath_hal 225904 1 ath_pci nls_iso8859_1 13440 1 nls_cp437 15104 1 vfat 21120 1 fat 65592 1 vfat usb_storage 94912 0 ipt_REJECT 11776 1 ipt_LOG 14468 1 xt_limit 11140 2 xt_tcpudp 11776 25 xt_state 10624 5 ipt_addrtype 11136 4 ip6table_filter 11264 1 ip6_tables 29712 1 ip6table_filter nf_nat_irc 10752 0 nf_conntrack_irc 14648 1 nf_nat_irc nf_nat_ftp 11520 0 nf_nat 30100 2 nf_nat_irc,nf_nat_ftp nf_conntrack_ipv4 24216 7 nf_nat nf_defrag_ipv4 10496 1 nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_conntrack_ftp 17592 1 nf_nat_ftp nf_conntrack 84752 7 xt_state,nf_nat_irc,nf_conntrack_irc,nf_nat_ftp,nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack_ftp iptable_filter 11392 1 ip_tables 28304 1 iptable_filter x_tables 31624 8 ipt_REJECT,ipt_LOG,xt_limit,xt_tcpudp,xt_state,ipt_addrtype,ip6_tables,ip_tables isofs 43688 1 udf 92584 0 crc_itu_t 10496 1 udf binfmt_misc 18572 1 via 54016 2 drm 123232 3 via bridge 63904 0 stp 11140 1 bridge bnep 22912 2 input_polldev 12688 0 video 29204 0 output 11648 1 video lp 19588 0 snd_hda_intel 557364 3 snd_pcm_oss 52352 0 snd_mixer_oss 24960 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 99336 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss snd_seq_dummy 11524 0 snd_seq_oss 41984 0 snd_seq_midi 15744 0 snd_rawmidi 33920 1 snd_seq_midi arc4 10240 2 snd_seq_midi_event 16512 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi ecb 11392 2 snd_seq 66272 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event snd_timer 34064 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq snd_seq_device 16276 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq ath5k 116224 0 snd 78792 15 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device psmouse 64028 0 mac80211 251144 1 ath5k ppdev 16904 0 k8temp 13440 0 pcspkr 11136 0 serio_raw 14468 0 led_class 13064 1 ath5k soundcore 16800 1 snd snd_page_alloc 18704 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm cfg80211 43168 2 ath5k,mac80211 i2c_viapro 17304 0 shpchp 44572 0 parport_pc 45096 1 parport 49584 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc usbhid 47040 0 8139too 36608 0 8139cp 31488 0 via_rhine 34568 0 mii 14464 3 8139too,8139cp,via_rhine floppy 75816 0 fbcon 49792 0 tileblit 11264 1 fbcon font 17024 1 fbcon bitblit 14464 1 fbcon softcursor 10368 1 bitblit lscpi reads 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE/K8N890CE [Chrome 9] (rev 11) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 7253 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16 Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Memory at dd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] [virtual] Expansion ROM at de000000 [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: <access denied> ill be looking into the dllcanunload error and see if it resolves anything