Howdi, Seeing the same thing here on a Dell 8500 - using KDE's ctrl-alt-esc 'click the mouse on whatever you want to KILL' feature - to get rid of the splash screen, and I notice (via top) that: o kded disappears from the process table, and o when hitting the vol-UP special key on the poota, that WAIT goes way up, with kded using maybe 7% CPU. This on an otherwise idle machine. (2ghz Pentium4 with 1.5GB RAM).
My kernel is self-compiled, and I'm running on a mostly unstable Debian setup. I do not have the i8k module compiled - although CONFIG_I8K is compiled into the kernel. If I thought that it was reasonable to expect that I8K should be removed in order for volume keys to work, I'd experiment with removing it -- but Jan 's already proved that this fixes (but does not *resolve*) the problem. ii klineakconfig 0.8-beta2-5 KDE configurator for lineakd ii liblineak0 0.8.3-8 LinEAK development files ii lineakd 0.8.3-8 Linux support for Easy Access and Internet Keyboards ii kmix 3.4.3-5 sound mixer applet for KDE Cheers, Jedd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]