I had a similar problem. Doesn't crash my box but I get a horrible sound
until I reboot, sometimes it's just a sudden drop in sound quality, but a
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sound restart fixes it.
I am not using kde though.. anyway I switched to freeamp which seems more
stable.
Thomas.
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I had such problems with a few sound chipsets. The one to blame was
the kde arts, sound deamon. Just disable it and restart kde.
( Sometimes it used to crash the whole system, sometimes it was
saying it overflooded the cpu, somethign like that)
Onur Kucuk
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