I have observed a problem with kde 3.1 under 9.0 ( I will test if this also occurs under 9.1-rc1).
As you know, some programes can't have sound if artsd is runing (for example chromium or the sound decoder of xawdecode). Under kde 3.0.5 I can edit in kcontrol the sounds to dissable artsd after not runing 20 seconds and this runs fine, but with 3.1 artsd never stops; I had to kill artds to have chromium sound runing. I think this is a kde 3.1 bug, but I am not sure; could you check this? Yours sincerely -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Departamento de Biología Vegetal Universidad de Murcia E-30100 Murcia España (Spain)