On 13/02/06, Kai Schaetzl <maillists at conactive.com> wrote: > I usually don't setup any GUI on my Linux systems. Yesterday I installed > with X and Gnome on a spare system for some testing and hit a problem. > Right after login the system freezes. The system froze already earlier > when I opted to test the sound card on the Welcome screen and when I login > with the alternative login choice xterm and shut down it freezes when > "saving mixer settings". So, I suspect there's some problem with the > onboard sound or with the driver that gets used from X. > How's the best way to cope with this? I don't really need sound, how to > disable (short of disabling it on the mainboard)? You could try hacking around in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf ? Obviously make a backup copy first. :) Have a look at the output from... # grep -r snd /etc/* See if that helps you track down where it's being started from. Is sndconfig enabled in the various /etc/rc.N directories? # chkconfig --list | grep -i snd Have you also tried setting the runlevel to 3 and running startx manually to see if the problem still occurs there? Will.