[CentOS] Annoyances with sound

Fri Jul 23 17:28:59 UTC 2021
mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Hi, folks,

    Running C7, updated the beginning of this month. KDE, I go to the 
start menu->multimedia. and select kmix, the pretty cursor bounces for a 
while, then apparently ends with nothing running. Nothing in .xerrors.

    I try selecting audacity - which I don't trust, given that the last 
time, weeks ago, that I ran it from the command line, after about 5 min, 
it hung my system (16G RAM, Core I-7) so hard I had to power cycle. From 
the start menu... I get a popup "an error has occured."

    What's going on here?

	mark