Ross Boylan wrote: > DCOP Cleaning up dead connections. Did you try to simply reboot the system? > libhal.c 767 : org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceDoesNotExist raised > "Service "org.freedesktop.Hal" does not exist" Is the "hal" package installed? > kmix: ERROR: Mixer_ALSA::setEnumIdHW(25), errno=-22 Perhaps you could rerun "alsaconf"? Gert