In your KDE control panel:sound, you are informed that KDE monopolizes your sound system to make its noises, and you can set the release time. I think that, when you punch up kmix, there is a desktop noise, and kmix has to wait 15 seconds to load. It times out. If you set the release time to one second, it will succeed after the one second. It did for me, so that's my story and I'm sticking to it unless someone has a better one. :-) daveA
Thank you for your explanation in detail.You mention set the "release time" in kde control center. I am using kde3.3, and find through the sound option section, But i really can't find where to set the "release time".
Sorry to bother you again.